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...describing a Tsar or a Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable. The country itself seems both to seek subjugation and to struggle against it. It takes a special kind of oppressor to succeed in such a place. Like Brezhnev, he must appear to have sprung from the soil and descended from the sky simultaneously. He must be both the struggle and the oppression...
...true B movie filmmakers directing a screenplay by the foremost purveyor of mass paperback horror. Unfortunately, a potentially interesting juxtaposition fails. Romero's shock tactics end up being overwhelmed by King's schlock tactics, and the result, Creepshow, is certainly not worthy of the fetid--but rich--soil from which it sprang...
...recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose confederation built around environmentalist groups, the Greens include organizations that are vociferously opposed to all forms of atomic power in West Germany and to the presence of U.S. nuclear warheads on local soil. The Greens fear that Zimmermann's appointment presages a crackdown on the massive antinuclear demonstrations that have blossomed across the country in the past year. Green Spokesman Lucas Beckmann last week called Zimmermann's appointment "a scandal...
Begin then outlined his previous position on the Sinai, emphasizing his most disturbing point, that the Israeli settlements on Egyptian soil were a necessary buffer between Gaza and Egypt. He next addressed the issue of a separate agreement with Egypt, to the exclusion of the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. Begin believed that an agreement on the Sinai might come first, with a later accord on "Judea and Samaria." (Begin always referred to the West Bank by the biblical names, I assume to engender the notion that this was the promised land that God himself had given the Jews...
...that once a section of pipeline is completed and buried, typically to a minimum depth of 42 in., the surface is reseeded and restored for use as range or cropland the following season. Maintenance teams will be permanently based along the lines to inspect them periodically and guard against soil erosion by practicing terracing and other soil-conservation techniques. Says Robert Landers, a construction supervisor on the Trailblazer project: "We bury and hide our pipe with about the same care the Egyptians took in burying their pharaohs." Now the only thing the pipeline companies have to worry about is whether...