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...chimney of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. At the base of the chimney, the workers found a tunnel, which they followed to a nearby Soviet apartment building. They caught a brief glimpse of a fleeing Russian, who had been monitoring listening equipment, then realized that they were on Soviet soil T?or, rather, beneath Soviet soil 5?and retreated. Administration officials called the incident "particularly nasty." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance protested personally to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Incredibly, Gromyko responded by complaining haughtily that the American workers had cut a Soviet cable?the one that connected the eavesdropping...
...moneymaker, yielding an estimated $70 million a year. But, unlike the other natural products of the valley, it is illegal. The plant is sinsemillas (Spanish for seedless), a highly cultivated strain of marijuana that has recently found favor with U.S. pot smokers. It thrives in the fertile soil and relaxed legal atmosphere of southern Oregon...
...self-interest is partly political: poverty in the LDCs provides fertile soil for demagogues. So far this spring, there have been three political outbreaks: a Marxist coup in Afghanistan, bloody riots in Peru, a guerrilla invasion of Zaïre. Each has had special causes, but the potential will exist for many more such explosions until the 3 billion or so citizens of LDCs can see some prospect for improvement in their lives. A few years ago, a French author wrote a futuristic novel in which the world's hungry banded together in a kind of vengeful crusade...
...Western estimate, however, sets the number of Cuban dead and wounded hi Angola and Ethiopia at roughly 1,800. A few of the "walking wounded" have returned home, but the severely injured are generally treated and confined in East German and Soviet hospitals. The dead are buried on African soil...
...founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 as a daring experimental power and soil-reclamation project designed to be a model for regional development. During the depressed '30s, the seven-state TVA brought the cheap electricity and fertilizers and flood control that lifted the Tennessee Valley from poverty to the brink of prosperity...