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...approve? Because the continued sale of arms is of no benefit to negotiations between us and the Taiwan authorities for peaceful reunification, because then Chiang Ching-kuo will think he has nothing to fear, and he will thrust his tail up 10,000 meters high in the sky. And so we do hope that following normalization the U.S., while maintaining a people-to-people relationship with Taiwan, will take care not to hinder negotiations between China and Taiwan for peaceful reunification. This particular question may be discussed many times...
...University of Buffalo, M.S. from New York University and Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia. Despite the fact that CBS required no special education to qualify for the job and his colleagues did not take kindly to the title, Harris insisted on being called "Doctor." Then, two weeks ago, the sky fell in on "Doctor Bob." The network learned Bob Harris through an anonymous letter that Harris had no more formal training than an Etruscan fulgurator and had lied about his degrees. In spite of a stream of protests from loyal listeners, he was fired...
...position of the Crimean Tartars. They are a simple people without education. They could not afford to buy houses; they sleep under the open sky. They want to work in agriculture and they have tried, but they cannot work on the farms because they are not allowed. The Crimean Tartars were brought from Crimea in 1944--it was a Stalin decision. In one day in 1944 the whole population of Crimean Tartars was brought from Crimea. They were brought in railway cars to Uzbekistan. On the way half of them died. Dead people lay near those not yet dead...
...although Santa Marta Gold is still the most famous of the Colombian line, the Arhuaco Indians in the higher altitudes are growing an even more potent variety of pot: Mona (blond) plants so pale that they look bleached. The Cielo Azul heights produce a pale plant known as Blue Sky Blond, developed as a hybrid two years ago with seeds from Thailand. Even the arid and low-lying fields of the Guajira peninsula, which are irrigated and farmed with tractors, grow a good green grass. The broiling sun forces the plants up to 15 ft. within six months and infuses...
...named because a tape of the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing when a jubilant Johanson-led team returned to base camp after unearthing parts of her in a sediment bed in the Afar region of Ethiopia...