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Joshua Slocum offered that advice after returning in 1898 from a solo three-year voyage around the world in his 36-ft. 9-in. Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic...
That is not likely to slow down any time soon. In the past twelve years, the Soviets have conducted at least 17 tests of their ASAT system to disable or destroy enemy satellites. In these experiments, a so-called killer satellite approaches its target and explodes, sending out a spray of deadly shrapnel. To match this threat, the U.S. is now working on its own antisatellite system of an even more advanced design, to be launched from a high-flying aircraft that could not be easily targeted by enemy missiles like the Soviets' ground platforms...
...business bloomed in the late 1970s after the Nixon Administration pressured Mexico to spray its grass crop with paraquat, a potent weed killer. U.S. smokers, frightened of potential lung damage from tainted Mexican grass, turned to growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about...
Officials admit that they are managing to seize only 5% to 10% of the domestic crop at best. The DEA contends that enforcement could become more efficient if the newly discovered marijuana fields were to be sprayed with paraquat. The state of Florida, in apparent agreement, has announced that it will spray some fields with the herb killer. The Florida plan has prompted critical editorials in local newspapers as well as a lawsuit from NORML. In addition, the Chevron Chemical Co., a distributor of paraquat, has fired off a warning letter to the U.S. Department of Justice...
...riots outside Iowa Beef Processors' slaughterhouse in tiny Dakota City (pop. 1,440), Neb., over the past two weeks recalled the labor wars of the 1930s. As union workers hurled railroad spikes and ball bearings at state troopers and strikebreakers, stinging clouds of tear gas and chemical spray swirled into protesters' eyes. Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced...