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...also got rid of the snakes that plagued the farmers in the rocky Irish countryside, and the way he did that also showed some imagination. He brought in pigs--everyone knows snakes are afraid of pigs, or at least every Irishman knows that. And now you'll seldom see a snake in Ireland, except maybe at the bottom of a few glasses...
...instance, has publicly scourged him as being "as bad as Hitler." The black African states, all of which have their own internal tribal rivalries, also share a tradition of not intervening in each other's territories. Though Nyerere and his OAU colleagues would clearly be happy to be rid of Amin, the Tanzanian President publicly maintains that any suggestion that he actually wanted to topple Amin is "a lie." That task, he said, "is the right of the people of Uganda alone." So why did his forces pursue Big Daddy so long and hard? In a speech...
Iran is well rid of the Shah and his imperial trappings, but can it afford Khomeini [Feb. 12] with his illusions of an Islamic republic? Current relief and revelry over the dethroning of an imperial despot could easily turn into despair, frustration and bloodshed under a politically naive religious zealot...
Film Producer Robert Radnitz, who lives in one of the threatened houses, first spotted the boulder. Partially dislodged by a landslide, it had come to rest 200 ft. above his house. After vainly asking local officials to get rid of it, he finally sent an angry telegram to Governor Jerry Brown. The state thereupon declared an emergency, shut down five miles of the highway, and hired a Long Beach construction company for $97,000 to haul the boulder away...
Donald Seibert, J.C. Penney chairman, after viewing the Treasures of Tutankhamun: "The Egyptians found a great way to get rid of their inventory. They buried it, but, even then, I noticed that they had some shrinkage...