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After 40 years as monarch of Afghanistan, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 58, presumably thought it safe to take a holiday in Italy to soak up some sun and get treatment for a troublesome eye condition. That, as it turned out last week, was a royal mistake. While the King was bathing his eyes with mud and mineral water at a thermal spa on the isle of Ischia off Naples, his kingdom was peremptorily converted into a republic. Leading the coup was his cousin and brother-in-law, ex-Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan...
Even more significant, $158 million of the funds have been designated for preserving Venice's lagoon and its surrounding marshland. These mud flats act as giant sponges which soak up high tide waters that flood the sinking city with deplorable frequency. In 1971, for instance, Venice's streets were inundated about 200 times...
...said Tass, it crawled about 30 yds., taking a small crater "in its stride." Its protruding lobster-like TV eyes gave the ground team "a good view of the moonscape." Then, after completing this initial exercise, the robot was given a day's rest so that it could soak up the sun and recharge its solar-powered batteries...
...proposals call for reductions or other reforms in local property taxes, an extremely popular goal first proposed by Richard Nixon. But the Democrats have replaced the controversial alternative being considered by the President-the so-called value-added tax, which would result in higher consumer prices-with populist soak-the-rich solutions...
...nation raise the revenue it needs to improve public services? One way to begin is by slashing, or preferably abolishing, some Government programs that continue to soak up tax dollars long after they have lost their justification?if they ever had one. The U.S. is in trouble not only because tax revenues are inadequate, but also because too much of them has been spent for the wrong purposes...