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...only thing certain about the weather is that it will change. Sure enough, late last fall, rain started falling in California. Hard. Water came so abundantly to the dry and thirsty land that in the first six months of this year the state got 2½ times its normal amount of rainfall. The rains have been so plentiful that there would have been disastrous floods if the drought had not emptied streams, lakes and reservoirs...
Deep in the heart of Texas the elements are less accommodating: three weeks of temperatures of more than 100° and six weeks of drought in the Dallas area have shriveled the earth. It is so hot that people are watering house foundations to keep them from cracking...
Vance first met separately with each of the two Foreign Ministers to work out procedures for the discussion. Reviewing the similarities between Israel's 26-point peace proposal offered last December and Egypt's six-point plan given to Vice President Walter Mondale earlier this month, the Secretary noted that both plans 1) envision real peace for Israel, with normal relations with its neighbors, 2) recognize the necessity of detailed security assurances for Israel, 3) propose a five-year transition period and some sort of self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, though there are major...
...country's presidency. The current favorite is the candidate least beloved by the Ecuadorian military: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 37, leader of the populist Concentration of Popular Forces party (CFP). Roldós received 31% of the 1,408,316 votes cast. His closest rival in a six-candidate field was Sixto Duran Ballén, 57, the army's favorite, with 23%. The runoff election, expected in the fall, promises to be a close one, but the real wonder is that Roldós has been allowed to campaign at all. He is the prot...
Finding their newly discovered stela too heavy to cart away intact, the thieves cut it into six pieces with chain saws. Then, along with the rest of their booty, they load the chunks onto burros and head for the border. Within days their contraband enters the flourishing black market in pre-Columbian antiquities, to be bought by rich collectors in the U.S., Western Europe or Japan...