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While the showdown looms in Mexico, U.S. scientists are looking for further clues to the Africanized bee's physiology. There is some evidence, for example, that killer bees do not thrive in colder climates. But even if they colonize only in the warmer Southern states, there is plenty of reason to worry about the potential costs. Lost sales of honey and damage to fruit, nut and vegetable crops worth billions of dollars each year could be substantial, not to mention lives lost to fatal stings...
...winner of the Harvard-Navy showdown will face Syracuse in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse...
...program must be carried out with far broader popular consultation than $ Jaruzelski is willing to permit. Walesa also felt that the shipyard was not adequately prepared for a strike. But as others' positions hardened, so did Walesa's. He soon seemed to be pushing the Jaruzelski regime toward a showdown...
Even as his defeats were sealed by the voters, Jackson was looking ahead to next week's primary in Oregon as well as the final showdown June 7 in California. Campaigning in Portland, he said, "We know the people of Oregon are an independent-thinking people. We expect a tremendous response...
...showdown pitted a lame-duck President looking to make a dramatic stand against a Congress determined to impose its will. As the Senate prepared to vote on the omnibus trade bill last week, President Reagan vowed to veto the package if the lawmakers did not remove a provision requiring that companies give workers 60 days' notice of plant closings. But the House had already passed the bill by a veto-proof 312 to 107, and the Senate was not about to back down. As the Senate's Democratic leaders struggled on Wednesday to line up votes and woo as many...