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...good enough because it doesn't go far enough," said President Reagan in a speech to the Oklahoma state legislature. Instead, Reagan reminded Brezhnev of his "zero option" proposal made last November, in which the U.S. would forgo placing its new Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil if Moscow would scrap its arsenal of SS-20 missiles...
There was something else to Brezhnev's proposal: a vague but ominous warning to the U.S. that seemed to harken back to the days of an earlier showdown between the countries, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. If the NATO allies did indeed station the new missiles on European soil next year, said the Soviet leader, "there would arise a real additional threat to our country and its allies." Warned Brezhnev: "This would compel us to take retaliatory steps that would put the other side, including the United States itself, its own territory, in an analogous position. This should...
...exactly why ranchers in West Texas, Arizona and other areas of the southwestern U.S. want to remove invading species of mesquite. Ranchers go to the trouble of burning, chaining and chemically controlling their mesquite to provide a more favorable growing climate for range grasses. When grass is reestablished, the soil is broken up, more water percolates into the water table, erosion lessens, perennial streams are re-established and, quite often, even wildlife returns...
...some Hollister boosters have a catchier slogan for their community: THE EARTHQUAKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Indeed, the San Andreas fault, largest of the 32 active and inactive incisions in San Benito County, stretches out its tightened muscles several times a day, sending shudders through the sandstone and loamy soil. Most of the temblors are minor, and only the 275 seismographs and other instruments screwed into the soil hereabouts pick up the rumble. The equipment is so sensitive that it can distinguish the footfalls of humans from those of deer...
Here on native soil the Classics have been performing quite well. The cagers finished their regular season accumulating a 13-2 record with credited victories over the j.v. squads of MIT. Tufts, Harvard and several local junior colleges...