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...hour of downtime at the Ramada Hotel near L.S.U. Doffing his jacket, he phones Atwater in South Carolina. Atwater says reporters are asking lots of questions about the Dukakis statement. It seems that while Dukakis did say he would cancel two new carriers, he added that he would not scrap any already afloat. Teeley is dispatched to gather the facts and smooth things over. Atwater also tells Bush that Dole has promised a "major announcement" for the next day. Bush: "What is that all about, do we have any idea?" Atwater doesn't. (It turns out to be an endorsement...
...from the creek named Scorched Lime in the northern slums of Manila lies a settlement called Happy Land. The name notwithstanding, Happy Land is neither happy nor on land. A collection of lean-tos patched together from plastic, cardboard, plywood and scrap metal, Happy Land is built on stilts above the black waters of a sewage canal. Flies buzz around empty tin cans and wastepaper in the water below, as Happy Landers catwalk across the planks that lead from shack to shack. Inside cramped quarters, men play cards or sleep on chairs padded with rags; women boil rice on mottled...
Charlesworth's enthusiastic reaction is understandable, for the text he was examining was not just any scrap of parchment. It was the legendary Genesis Apocryphon, one of the original seven rolls of inscribed sheepskin known as the Dead Sea Scrolls -- and the only one whose contents are still largely unread. Unearthed in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds from rocky caves only 15 miles from Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by biblical archaeologists to be the greatest manuscript discovery ever made. Their texts, set down in Hebrew and Aramaic some 2,000 years ago, include long-lost originals of dozens...
...This is not an attack per se on Frank Carlucci," said Secretary of the Navy James Webb last week. Whereupon he launched a withering barrage at the Secretary of Defense for his decision to scrap 16 aging Navy frigates as part of this year's budget cuts. The former Marine, in office only eleven months, vowed, "I'm not walking this budget over to the Hill." Instead, he resigned...
...Kremlin insisted it would not back away from its ambitious plan to quintuple nuclear power output by the year 2000. But officials underestimated the fears created by the accident. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Party youth newspaper, disclosed last week that the government had made an unprecedented decision to scrap construction of an atomic power plant in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar (cost so far: $43 million) simply because residents were adamantly against it. Krasnodar is not alone. The article said residents of some two dozen localities are "fiercely" protesting atomic energy stations operating or being built in their areas...