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...lying Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 1,000-mile system of dikes, made of sand and peat, has been sinking as the peat oxidizes. Six levees have collapsed since 1980, inundating some of the delta islands. The local water districts cannot afford the $1 billion needed to strengthen the system...
Otherwise let us take courage and remind ourselves that trials like these strengthen character in the end; let us silence the sinister skeptics among us who suggest that this is really curtains forever for "Doonesbury" --that Trudeau's line about a "vacation" is a ploy to ease readers into the more terrible truth--and finally, let us fantasize. Maybe Garry Trudeau still draws a strip every day and puts it away in a drawer. Maybe in 1984 at the end of his sabbatical, he'll set them all free--more than 500 brand new sequences, more than 2000 new frames...
...pleasant in person, and this may be true of puppets like Kapuuo as well, but that has nothing to do with their public positions. According to a 1981 IDAF report. "Fearing a SWAPO victory in the event of U.N.-controlled and supervised elections, the South African government sought to strengthen the DTA whose policies it had helped to create...
...other Italian cases, however, strengthen the Bulgarian connection. Luigi Scricciolo, 34, a former Italian labor official arrested in February on charges of spying for Bulgaria and aiding the terrorist Red Brigades, has reportedly named as his contact one of the Bulgarians implicated in the papal plot. In Trento, 200 people have been jailed on charges of smuggling arms and drugs into Western Europe under the direction of a man reputed to have close ties to Bulgaria. In Israel, intelligence officials have long asserted that Bulgaria has trained Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists...
...sure, the Reagan Administration has badly mismanaged the presentation of this paradox. It has talked far too often, too simplistically and too provocatively about nuclear war. It has pursued rearmament indiscriminately and disarmament unconvincingly. Thus it has created a backlash against even legitimate efforts to strengthen U.S. defenses-and rendered itself vulnerable to caricatures like Scheer...