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...talks with TIME Correspondent John Blashill, several of the Asians described their dilemma. "There is nothing left for us here," declared an Asian doctor-one of those exempt from Amin's expulsion order. Said a millionaire businessman: "Money is not our concern. What is money? It is sand flowing through the fingers. If we lose everything, we can start again somewhere else, on another beach." An Asian schoolteacher agreed. "My classes are 95% African," he said. "They are being told to hate the Asians. How can I stand up in front of them in the classroom...
Once the digging began, new problems and complaints arose. Since Back Bay is all built on land that was reclaimed last century from the Charles River Basin-really a swamp filled with sand and gravel-digging into the unstable soil disrupted nearby areas. Streets and sidewalks rose and fell, sometimes as much as six feet, pinching and twisting telephone, electric and gas lines. Several water mains broke. As a result, the city and local utilities are suing Hancock for some...
...only thing that can make you small is to have eternity in a grain of sand, you know. Some religions would say one can strive, but Zen would say even to strive is to miss the satori. The goal is being rather than becoming. This is again where I feel that the mystical movements are the most technologically sophisticated political movements now operating. They make everything in Herman Kahn and the Club of Rome seem incredibly naive...
...assault, which was dubbed "Operation Motorman," the British government airlifted three additional battalions into Ulster from West Germany, thereby increasing British troop strength in Northern Ireland to half the size of Britain's entire NATO force. Armored Saracen and Saladin vehicles, still painted the color of sand for desert duty, were landed by Royal Navy vessels. On the eve of the operation, Whitelaw warned the populace that "substantial activity by the security forces" was imminent, and advised Ulstermen to stay off the streets. At 4 o'clock the next morning, as a drizzling rain fell, the first armored...
...Indies Corp., the biggest (annual sales: $18 million) import house in the Virgin Islands, his adopted home of more than two decades. As the islands' commissioner of commerce from 1961 to 1964, Kimelman was one of several businessmen who turned the U.S. possession from a sleepy haven of sand and sun into a tourist mecca. Since the islands are one of the two American free ports outside the U.S. (the other: Guam), the business of importing duty-free liquor, perfume and other goodies for tourists has grown fast. Kimelman's fortune is estimated to be $10 million...