Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must fight, let's fight at the site of farm foreclosures and save farms and save ranches and give farmers a chance to rebuild their lives," he said. "If we must fight, find the site of some trade drop from South Africa...
First came the squabbling over reciprocal sites. The Soviets initially balked when the U.S. offered a location on Washington's Mount Alto, ! complaining it was too far from the center of town. The U.S. had a similar gripe about the Soviets' suggested American embassy site high atop the Lenin Hills. By the end of the decade, however, the Soviets had accepted Mount Alto; the high ground may have been far from the action, but it did offer an ideal location for eavesdropping equipment. Meanwhile, the U.S. agreed to build in that soggy spot near the Moscow River, primarily because...
...California, and perhaps in the U.S." The Colorado connection has long since dried up, but a 75-mile river still flows, carrying its poisonous flotsam into California's bountiful Imperial Valley, past lettuce and cotton fields, and finally emptying into the Salton Sea, a popular fishing and swimming site near Palm Springs. Fishermen and residents alike have complained about pollution in the Salton Sea, and the U.S. Geological Survey stopped taking river samples two years ago. Reason: the water is too unhealthy to handle. But despite repeated promises from the Mexican government, little has been done. "The problem," says Environmental...
...food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain into the river. About 100 toxic substances, including mercury and such known or suspected cancer-causing agents as PCBs, toxaphene and benzene have been identified at the border sampling site...
Elsewhere in Europe last week, Israeli diplomacy had a smoother ride. Setting another precedent, President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit West Germany. At the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which he helped liberate in 1945 as an officer in the British army, Herzog said, "I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are the dead. The living have no right to forget." Despite the agonizing memories, Herzog hailed West Germany as "one of our closest friends." That was more than mere rhetoric. Today the Federal...