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...that process, he urged that the ban on U.S. aid to Pakistan be lifted. Pakistan, which borders on Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, is prohibited from receiving American economic and military aid because of its nuclear armament program. A guarantee of regional security, he argued, would lessen Pakistan's "thirst" for its own nuclear weapons...
...mortars and sealing them inside oil drums. There is also occasion for a couple of interesting minor subplots which end in a pair of murders. All the arms stowed away, Shannon and company--a small international band of warriors-for-pay bound by shared danger, shared skill, and shared thirst for beer--set sail aboard a trawler for Zangaro. They land late at night, eliminate a sentry or two, and then storm a garrison in a violent display of pyrotechnics. Shortly afterwards, justice triumphs--to say more would give the ending away, and probably reintroduce this question of politics...
...most ominous aspect of the current slump is its global reach. Even during the severe 1973-75 recession that racked industrialized nations, growth in developing countries, such as Brazil, South Korea and Singapore, continued to move ahead. The thirst of those countries for imports from machine tools to tractors helped keep production lines working in the U.S., Europe and Japan. That expansion and the ever higher oil bills, though, were paid for by increasing doses of credit from Western banks. As a result, the developing countries have piled up a staggering $450 billion in debts. Now the banks have grown...
...They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. 4. They have no use for psychology...
...collective, happy death when he said he guessed it might be worth a few hundred bucks. Chong smokes billy-club sized joints and a cockroach he finds in the jar labelled "Roaches." Cheech sniffs salt thinking it's cocaine (and to climax this butguster drinks urine to slake his thirst). And at the end, a spaceship arrives to carry away all the pot bushes in a country field. Pretty humorous...