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Gore's endorsements come in part because he is perceived as a safe favorite son for Southerners. He is pursuing a risky strategy that has failed others who gave short shrift to Iowa and New Hampshire. But 1988 has its own dynamics. With such a diffuse and crowded field and a chance that the early votes will be splintered, there is a distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant...
...demonstrators got moral support from unexpected sources. After having his tour of the Kalandia camp cut short by rock throwing, Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island faulted Israel's management of the crisis. Another visitor, British Foreign Office Junior Minister David Mellor, infuriated Israelis when he emerged from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and called conditions in such camps an "affront to civilized values." He also sharply upbraided an Israeli army colonel for arresting a 14-year-old boy accused of throwing stones. "I saw no stones being thrown," Mellor told the stunned officer...
...spill had happened during the warm months of summer, the highly toxic oil would have been devastating to the rivers' ecosystems. But in winter, fish are inactive, many birds have migrated south, and most plants are dormant. "The algae that fish feed on will be wiped out in the short term," says Tom Purcell of the Environmental Protection Agency, "but they will easily be replenished from upstream." Then, too, escaped oil will eventually be broken down by naturally occurring bacteria, although the EPA's Ray Germann admits, "No one can tell how long it will take...
...here," says John Harvey, Livermore's project manager for advanced strategic systems. "Your technical credibility is the only thing that you ever have to offer anyone. That's one of the things the laboratory has been strong on in the past." Now, though, it is a commodity in short supply...
Last night's outage follows a short electricity surge on Monday which cut off power in the Quad for seconds. According to DesRoches, the blackout occurred while a workman was trying to resurrect a fallen cable...