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...dance by a low-flying photographer from up the road in Santa Fe. In another day, some of the more outraged Pueblo might have divided him into several parts. In these litigious times, they sued for $3.65 million. How quaint the tale appeared from afar. (Damages? "Infertility." Sex or soil? "Both.") And how levelheaded and 20th century it turned out to be from the ground. (Damages? "You can never put a monetary value on disturbances of this kind. What we want more than anything else is to follow our religious practices without interference. Besides, juries in New Mexico are notoriously...
Washington is especially pleased by Mitterrand's foreign policy. A staunch advocate of the Atlantic Alliance, the French President strongly supported the deployment of new U.S. missiles on European soil. He contributed 2,000 men to the Multi-National Force in Beirut (the last to depart, the French plan to withdraw this week) and dispatched some 3,000 troops to halt a Libyan-backed rebellion in Chad. The only major disagreement is on U.S. policy in Central America, which Mitterrand implicitly criticized during his speech to Congress. "Civil wars are not triggered by external influence alone, even if they...
President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan once remarked that being the friend of the U.S. is like living on the banks of a great river: the soil is wonderfully fertile and there are many other benefits, but every four years or eight years, the river, flooded by storms that are too far away to be seen, changes its course, and you are left in a desert, all alone. These irrational changes, of course, produced by a political vengefulness that is alien to American life, are a great danger. They confuse our friends, mislead our adversaries and confound...
...long way off. Arboreal experts are only now beginning to assess the severity of the problem. The Forest Service, for example, has just started a study of the condition of yellow pine, the South's prime source of commercial timber. At Oak Ridge, botanists are examining samples of soil for traces of metals such as aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest resources in Raleigh...
That is as may be; both labels apply. Heaney is very much a product of Ireland's soil, an element he describes as "black butter/ Melting and opening underfoot." And in a land that has produced enough rhymers to people County Mayo, his is the voice that resonates loudest past the Irish Sea to Britain, America and beyond. Heaney's reputation seems to increase geometrically with every poem, starting back in 1966 with the appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation...