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...trouble was caused by the fire ant, an agricultural pest that entered the U.S. from South America about 50 years ago and is now considered a problem in most Southeastern states. The fire ant erects mounds on cleared land; like natural tank traps, the mounds foul farm machinery. Worse, the ant has a stinging bite that plagues farmers and city dwellers and can even kill small animals...
...yellow-orange fungus called Hemileia vastatrix. In the late 19th century, when it ravaged the coffee plantations of Ceylon and India, the fungus helped change Britain into a nation of tea drinkers. Now it has invaded the New World, spreading rapidly through a Texas-sized area of southeastern Brazil and threatening 2 billion plants that yield a third of the world's coffee...
...leadership the patrol could doubtless become both fairer and more professional. Alabama troopers, for example, achieved an equally noxious reputation under Governor George Wallace, but they have performed far differently since he left the statehouse. The members of the Mississippi patrol are much like policemen everywhere, says Charles Morgan, Southeastern director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They do what is expected of them or tolerated by their superiors-nothing more or less...
...immediately wondered why the first had not yet arrived. So did U.S. Air Force radarmen, who had been monitoring the course of both flights. The answer, apparently, was that No. 09303 -one of 20 such operational planes in the Soviet fleet-had crashed into the North Atlantic off the southeastern tip of Greenland...
...South Vietnamese ground troops have not yet found the major Communist base complex, reportedly located in the Fishhook region of southeastern Cambodia...