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...effects of high levels of sulfur dioxide, given off by low grade coal, on farmland are well-documented; areas have suffered soil fertility decreases of 20 to 30 per cent from these emissions. The effects on health are less clear, but appear to be cause for concern...
Because the semiarid region is ecologically fragile, reports AID, "mistakes in the use of soil, water and vegetation are magnified." Trees have been cut down for fuel, savannah grass has been replaced by seasonal crops, and available ground water has been squandered. Most damaging of all, the inhabitants have allowed their huge herds of livestock to denude the land through overgrazing. These practices, combined with the drought, have killed off the natural vegetation and allowed the Sahara to creep southward-in some places, says AID, by "as much as 30 miles a year...
...loyal Catalan right up to his death last week at the age of 96. Catalan "was the language of troubadours," he once said, "and of free spirits." He liked to quote a Catalan poet, Joan Maragall, who wrote: "To take flight to Heaven, we must stand on the firm soil of our native land." And he sometimes told about Luis Companys, president of Catalonia under the Spanish Republic. Casals had met him while conducting concerts for the Workingmen's Concert Association he'd organized and playing the cello at benefits for Loyalist Spain. After the fascists triumphed, Companys was executed...
...obtain concerning press and TV, intellectual discussion and public debate. These societies are like bad gardeners who spend whole days out in the hot sun pruning bushes, doing their best to cut down hopeless growths of undesired ideologies, because they do not yet have skillful means for poisoning the soil...
...Angeles, 2,000 people turned up at the Century Plaza to hear their favorite Gentile champion, Senator Henry Jackson. The Chicago Civic Center was jammed with 5,000 people who applauded an enraged Mayor Richard Daley: "Go ahead, Israelites. Be sure to remove every Arab from the soil of Israel." The same night, 70,000 showed up at temples and synagogues for a fund-raising effort that included an appearance by Senator Edmund Muskie...