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...French-American pique was minor compared with the fury the sanctions had aroused within the alliance. The value of getting rid of them was quickly demonstrated when Kohl arrived in Washington. Freed of any need to quarrel about the pipeline, Kohl and Reagan, both conservatives, agreed about everything they discussed. Kohl pledged support for Reagan's proposals on nuclear-arms reduction, and for the stationing of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles on German soil next year if no agreement can be reached with the Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting...
...were recently readied for the storage of surplus grain. A few Iowa farmers are even planning to burn corn instead of oil in their furnaces this winter, and government officials in Nebraska are promoting the use of popcorn as a packing material. Says one Cornhusker official: "Gotta get rid of the damn corn somehow...
...failures annoyed Moscow. The Politburo accepted a less quiet way of getting rid of Amin. This time special Soviet troops were to storm the presidential palace. The day after Christmas 1979, Soviet paratroopers began arriving at the Kabul airport. They strengthened the substantial garrison we had quietly been building up there. The next day an armored column moved out of the airport toward the palace. It consisted of a few hundred Soviet commandos, plus a specially trained assault group of KGB officers-rather like the U.S. Green Berets. They were all in Afghan uniforms, and their vehicles had Afghan markings...
...Rudy, still a virgin, looks back over the wreckage of his life. He recalls the husband of his victim warning: "We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM...
...Massachusetts can do well to get rid of the slugs that proliferate in the state government." George E. Wilson, a registered independent, said. Wilson said that he is more closely allied with Sears' beliefs that with those of Dukakis. "Sears has business sense," he added...