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...have only temporarily and sporadically impeded Iran's oil shipments and have not hampered its ability to finance the conflict. Moreover, by renewing the tanker war now, said Assistant Secretary Murphy, Iraq is giving up the moral high ground to the Iranians, who can claim that Iraq's actions threaten the U.N. peace effort...
...accord is ultimately implemented without rebel participation, U.S. officials warn that the F.M.L.N. will be able to threaten Duarte's government even if outside military aid is cut off. Operating in small bands and able to retreat to rural hideaways, the rebels could continue to inflict damage in the countryside. Indeed, on the very day that Duarte signed the accord, guerrillas attacked a Salvadoran town called El Triunfo and burned down three public buildings, including the mayor's office. Only days earlier, the insurgents blew up a bridge in Usulutan province, the ninth major span hit in the past seven...
...search for solutions to labor and management, it began to move against the violence prone, arresting two workers for destroying an auto-parts factory and three fishermen for wrecking equipment in a Pusan market. Warned Labor Minister Lee Hun Ki: "If the current disputes are further aggravated to threaten the national economy and the security of our society, the government will take tough actions...
Along with property, receding U.S. coastlines threaten the survival of shore-dwelling wildlife. Florida's sea turtles, for example, including loggerheads, green turtles and others, cross hundreds of miles of ocean to lay eggs on the same sections of the same beaches. If the beach has eroded badly, a turtle is forced by instinct to use it anyway, dooming the eggs to be washed away or eaten by seabirds and raccoons. Least terns, Gulf Coast shellfish and beach-spawning fish, like the California grunion, are also in danger...
...Ritchie's ruthless desire for stardom and his utter contempt for all things that threaten the American pop-culture status quo which makes La Bamba so contemptible...