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...Earl Butz's little study, which has a horse collar, a buffalo skull and other rustic memorabilia on the wall, the Secretary can almost smell the rising power of food in economics, politics and the pursuit of peace. In those 16 Central States with 1,198,848 sq. mi., 223,260,000 acres are in crops worth $54 billion a year, almost twice as much as the U.S. consumes. This treasury of food is a resource that renews itself each year...
...most perilous frontier. The Heights are a very different proposition from the Sinai peninsula, where Secretary of State Kissinger was able earlier this year to work out a second disengagement accord between Israel and Egypt. For one thing, the Golan is a much smaller area−444 sq. mi., compared with 23,622 sq. mi. for the Sinai. For another, the Heights are not barren desert but an area of green, undulating hills with considerable strategic value. Although some military people say jets and missiles make this kind of thinking obsolete, neither the Syrians nor Israelis think so. The Heights...
Rapacious Neighbors. One measure of the prevailing confusion was uncertainty about the fate of Cabinda, a tiny (2,800 sq. mi.) oil-rich enclave that is geographically disconnected from the rest of Angola and wedged between Zaïre and the Congo. Last week Zaïre announced that Congolese troops had invaded Cabinda. When there was no confirmation from inside Cabinda, suspicions grew that Zaïre was merely preparing a justification for mounting its own invasion. At week's end Zaïre announced it was massing troops on its border with Cabinda, and a full-scale...
After he got the money, the robber demanded everyone in the kitchen not move. Then he and his partner left, walking down Mt. Auburn St. towards Central Sq., she said...
Still, if the cleric was taciturn, he was also a man of action. "Assure your salvation by your good deeds," he counseled his flock, and his life was a succession of such visible labors. When he came to Santa Fe, Lamy faced a diocese of 236,000 sq. mi.-larger than France. A mere dozen Mexican priests were in attendance, some of them living in open concubinage. The neglected adobe churches were crumbling into ruin before their eyes...