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Most of the phosphorus, biologists have found, comes from factories and municipal sewage-treatment plants. The nitrogen apparently enters the Chesapeake from farm fields and construction sites, which send fertilizers and soil into rivers and, ultimately, into the bay. Most of this nitrogen comes into the Chesapeake from the Susquehanna River. Flowing across Pennsylvania's rich farm country, the Susquehanna provides the bay with more than 40% of its fresh water and up to three-quarters of its nutrients...
...Honduras last week, officials were considering whether to revise the 1954 Bilateral Assistance Military Agreement, under which the U.S. can bring a wide range of military equipment to Honduran soil, and in particular a secret 1982 appendix that made possible the creation of the Regional Military Training Center. The government of President Roberto Suazo Córdova has also been discreetly pressuring some 10,000 Honduran-based contras to move into Nicaragua. After playing host to as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen and conducting joint military exercises with the U.S. almost continuously over the past 18 months, Honduras...
...voyages of Christopher Columbus and indigenous wild boars. The 70-lb. pig could run swiftly and forage for itself. Indeed, so voracious was its appetite for waste that Haitians did not need outhouses: their pigs kept the neighborhood clean and disease-free. The hogs also rooted in the soil in search of tubers and root-destroying worms, thereby helping turn the earth for planting, ridding crops of insect pests and leaving behind nitrogen-rich manure as fertilizer...
...crisis summit" but as a session aimed at nurturing global economic recovery. From Washington's point of view, the London meeting might have been dubbed the Re-Election Summit. It capped a ten-day presidential tour that began with Reagan's nostalgic visit to ancestral soil in Ireland and continued with a highly photogenic appearance on the beaches of Normandy for the 40th anniversary of the D-day landings (see following story...
...major sore point between Honduras and the U.S. is the training of Salvadoran soldiers on Honduran soil. In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a brief war; though animosities have abated, a border dispute remains. Recently, Washington insisted that 1,200 Salvadorans be allowed to participate in the joint U.S.-Honduran miltary exercises, dubbed Granadero I, that aided last week. In addition, some 4,000 Salvadorans have been trained at a Honduran military base near Puerto Castilla. Honduran military officials are renegotiating with the U.S. the terms of operating the base. Though the Salvadorans will probably remain, the Honduran government...