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...rancor, there is one political reconciliation that defies the national mood and grows stronger and deeper each year. A direct descendant of the elm tree that John Quincy Adams planted on the White House grounds in 1826 is now three years old and 14 ft. high, growing in the soil Thomas Jefferson had graded into a small hill back in 1807 to increase the beauty and privacy of the President's residence...
Trees stabilize the soil beneath them, thereby preventing erosion. As a disaster in the Sabel region some years ago made clear, a sudden removal of trees can cause complete deterioration of agricultural land More alarmingly. Duncan Poore, a researcher at Oxford, has pointed out that loss of a large food sustaining area through such deterioration is "an important cause of political unrest and instability." Shrinking farmland area results in food shortages, and the declining number of trees makes the cost of wood skyrocket. In some areas of Africa, the price of fuel wood used to cook a meal actually exceeds...
...demonstrated when Kohl arrived in Washington. Freed of any need to quarrel about the pipeline, Kohl and Reagan, both conservatives, agreed about everything they discussed. Kohl pledged support for Reagan's proposals on nuclear-arms reduction, and for the stationing of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles on German soil next year if no agreement can be reached with the Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting that new approaches to the Kremlin depend on "Soviet conduct," especially in Afghanistan, "an acid test of Soviet readiness . . . to exercise restraint." Kohl said later...
...accusations that high-ranking army officers ordered the murder of two U.S. land-reform experts in 1981. If no progress is made in that case by late January, the Reagan Administration may discover that the battle over El Salvador is taking place not only on that country's soil but on Capitol Hill as well...
...take some readers that long to finish this one. As in the Moses book, Caro leaves practically nothing about his man unexamined.*There are seven scholarly pages on the rainfall and soil composition of the Texas hill country in the 19th century. Not for nothing: Caro is explaining why Johnson's farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible...