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...Shatt al Arab waterway. Buttressed by batteries of 130-mm artillery, an estimated 9,000 Iraqi infantrymen, using three pontoon bridges, succeeded in crossing the Karun River. Their military command declared it "Iraq's largest amphibious assault ever." From that bridgehead Iraqi tanks fanned southward to surround both Khorramshahr and Abadan. The Iranians charged that the Iraqis bombarded both cities with artillery and with surface-to-surface missiles. Eyewitnesses said the carnage among civilians and the damage to both cities was "appalling...
...yourself: 'How intelligent are the people who are writing this? Do they lack the intelligence to take a look at a state that is the size of California that was run successfully for eight years-a multibillion-dollar business?' I was intelligent enough to surround myself myself as Governor with the kind of expertise and the kind of people who could make these things happen." He has a point. His administration of California was competent, and he did not let ideological principles prevent him from doing what had to be done...
...Manhattan, an engineer who decides the best site for a nuclear power plant is anchored off the Jersey Shore, a New York Times reporter given to playing pinball, a group of wealthy men making a canoe trip, a chef who cooks exquisite haute cuisine somewhere in the wilds that surround New York City. One's reaction is supposed to be along the lines of "I never thought I'd enjoy reading about floating nuclear power plants." Wonderfully crafted, lovingly rasped and sanded, they are vintage McPhee...
...insists that he and his family will return. "I don't want to give the impression that Argentina is such a black, dark place," he says, citing its physical and human resources. "But we couldn't remain because we simply didn't have the resources to surround ourselves with bodyguards." Cox will return not only because he feels The Herald must play out its role as the last bastion of a free press until another paper joins its ranks, but also because he loves Argentina and believes it can thrive as a modern, stable, pluralistic democracy...
...There are some things the Japanese have that we can't imitate. Their inventories come from plants that surround their auto plants. Ours come in on rail cars from South Carolina. But we can learn from the way they plan their business; the way they don't have labor-management squabbles; the way they can stop the line when there's something wrong with...