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Once inside Eritrea, we traveled cross-country, mostly by Land Rover, often at night. It was necessary for two people to drive-one at the wheel, the other calling out the terrain ahead or shouting out the depths of a river in the manner of Mark Twain...
...handled with the oldest of remedies: loving care and companionship. In many cases, Topeka Animal Dermatologist George Doering reported, dogs resort to tail-chewing as a ploy to get attention from a neglectful master. Doering's prescription: either devote more time to the pet or, if Rover is willing, bring in another dog as a playmate...
...majority of Britain's 26 million workers appear dead set against an extension of wage restraint. Their unrest is illustrated by a wildcat strike of 3,000 toolmakers that has brought most auto production to a standstill at the plants of British Leyland, makers of Morris, Austin, Triumph, Rover, and Jaguar cars, and idled 33,000 workers. The toolmakers are striking over the erosion of their "differential"-the margin by which the wages of skilled workers exceed those of the less skilled. Since the social contract held all increases to a flat monetary standard and ruled out raises...
...American couple scoffingly laughed in reply and dismissed it all as nonsense. Clearly satisfied by the Americans' answer-and equally clearly unsurprised by it-President Amin then took us off in his British-made Range Rover for a personally conducted tour of the still bullet-and bazooka-shattered section of Entebbe airport, where Israeli troops last July staged their stunningly successful raid to rescue hijack hostages from pro-Palestinian kidnapers...
...guided tour began when I was being driven from Kampala to Entebbe in Mr. Bob's car. The President passed by on the other side of the road in his Range Rover, stopped, turned round and joined us as we also stopped. He ordered out of his vehicle his bodyguard, an Acholi, from the tribe that, it is alleged, is being massacred in northern Uganda. The bodyguard then traveled in Mr. Bob's car while our little British journalistic group drove with the President...