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...international slacks cartel. The homicide squad itself includes such legends of cop-hood as Detective Teener, who has been so chipped away by criminals' bullets that his body is composed almost entirely of spare parts, and Detective Medici, the Dean of Child Molestation. Put with all the robust vulgarity and double-entendre that Bruce Friedman obviously intends, the book's central issue is: Can 40-year-old Ken LePeters get his parts together long enough to become a full-blooded American Dick...
...southern Germany near Munich, the Bavarian Hydropower Co. is already reaping a profit by using sewage (rich in minerals) as a fertilizer in carp ponds. The idea is not entirely new; natives of West Java have long known that carp raised in streams filled with wastes grow unusually robust. There is only one caveat: the fish must be well cooked before they are eaten...
...next congress, but an argument is still raging over who should move up. In the center of this speculation is Aleksei Kosygin. Only last week, along with President Nikolai Podgorny, he was unanimously re-elected by the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet. Nonetheless, at 66 Kosygin has neither the robust health nor the untempered power hunger of some of his colleagues, and some Western experts believe he would like to step down at the 24th Congress...
Buffoons, set to a theme from Rimsky Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, is a robust, circus-like satire on Old Russia, with a drunken boyar, a devil wielding a pitchfork and a troupe of gymnastic, gnomic clowns. The other two novelties are internationally flavored departures from Moiseyev's customary exploration of the Russian heritage. Sicilian Tarantella is a festive evocation of Italy's traditional folk dance, while Gaucho is a foot-stomping challenge match for three male soloists, dressed like Argentine cowboys on parade. The Latin rhythms have the right ring, but Moiseyev's cowboys look...
...haggling over such questions as Denmark's special relationships with Greenland and the Faeroe Islands, the negotiators will deal with the main issue: Britain. It is widely assumed that London's third bid for Common Market membership will probably be its last. With the pound in reasonably robust shape, Britain is nowhere near as desperate as it was in 1967 when, hat in hand, it made its last previous...