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More than 70,000 Cuban refugees have so far landed on U.S. soil, with thousands more still expected to arrive on the boats now at Mariel. Authorities opened a new refugee processing center last week at the military reservation in Indiantown Gap, Pa., to handle the spillover from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Arkansas' Fort Chaffee. By week's end the new camp held a capacity crowd of 20,000 and a fourth center, Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., opened its gates...
Still, the overall damage to wheat in Washington, Idaho and Montana, and to Washington's abundant cherries and apples, is likely to be minor. Alfred Halvorson, a soil expert at Washington State University, believes farmers will lose no more crops than they would to a "very heavy dust storm." Some scientists feared at first that the ash might produce a devastating acid rain, but tests showed that the dust is about as acid as orange juice. The ash contains no more sulfur than ordinary rainwater does...
...York's situation is not unique. As Journalist Michael Brown points out in a new book, Laying Waste (Pantheon; $11.95), the entire U.S. is dotted with chemical dumps. Most may never explode, but many are slowly leaking their toxic contents into the soil and the water that flows through it, thus threatening the health of generations to come. Says Brown: "We have planted thousands of toxic time bombs; it is only a question of time before they explode...
...Zimbabwe is far better off than neighboring Zambia and Mozambique. Naturally endowed with fertile soil and abundant mineral resources, the country also has a strong manufacturing sector, developed after international sanctions were imposed following the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence. With the trade boycott lifted, economists predict that the economy will grow by 3% this year...
...literature, in business and the professions. Their political views vary, as do their opinions on the best way to achieve their goal of an independent state. But as a people they have managed to forge a special bond of community, rooted in an obsessive longing for the idealized soil of Palestine. Some of these voices...