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...years, and the alienation made the President unnecessarily hesitant to direct his brother not to get entangled with the Libyans. According to family and friends, nothing hurt Billy more than what Jimmy did with the family's farm and peanut warehouse. Billy inherited a love for the soil from his father Earl, who used to tell him: "Someday you'll be in charge of things when you grow up. Jimmy's chosen the Navy, and you've chosen the land...
...animals may die off in the next two decades. Rare plants needed to create new blight-and pest-resistant hybrids will vanish. Paradoxically, some environmental problems may be the consequence of the best of intentions. As farmers try to squeeze more food out of their fields by irrigation, the soil's salinity will increase, thus impairing its ability to sustain crops. Less predictable, but no less frightening: a possible global heating from the growing volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere-expected to rise a third over preindustrial levels by century's end from continued burning of fossil...
...install 572 U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe to offset the Soviet advantage. But the strategic parity between the superpowers-especially amid the tensions following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan-leads many Europeans to fear the possibility of a limited conflict on their own soil...
...disapproval. For once, if he proceeds, Giscard will have the backing of both his West German and U.S. allies. Pentagon sources feel that, if Western Europeans accept a French decision to make a neutron warhead, allied governments might be more willing eventually to accept the U.S. equivalent on their soil...
...year per capita, vs. 29 gal. for the French. Europeans are also drawn by the large tracts of California's excellent uncultivated land. In the 86,000-acre Champagne district of northeastern France, Piper, for example, has only seven acres of the precious chalky soil. Now Piper has an investment in 1,200 acres of land in the Napa Valley...