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...stolid, jowly man whose face seems lugubriously appropriate to Israel's dire economic straits, Yigal Hurvitz, 62, who resigned as Finance Minister on Sunday, seems to thrive on political notoriety. Month after month, he had focused attention on himself in the Israeli Cabinet by challenging virtually every discretionary item of the government's planned 1981 budget. His goal: to pare public spending, hold unemployment to a tolerable 41/2% to 5% and, somehow, simultaneously bring the annual 140% inflation rate down to double digits by the end of the year. Understandably, he was not always thanked for his tightfistedness...
...living proof that those tough old men in the Kremlin often thrive on adversity. A year ago, Moscow was rife with rumors that he was on the brink of retirement if not death, that a faith healer from the Caucasus was treating him for mysterious, possibly terminal ailments, that his colleagues on the Politburo were bypassing or overruling him on key decisions...
Buthelezi argues that the homelands can never thrive because, for one thing, most of their best-educated young people will always aspire to live and work in affluent urban centers of white South Africa. While he hopes to see a broad, peacefully negotiated pact that will bring blacks into the South African power structure, he is not optimistic. The violence that has scarred urban ghettos like Soweto, he believes, could spread to the homelands...
...Botulism usually comes from eating improperly canned food contaminated by toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Four years ago, researchers at the California health department found that babies with no obvious exposure to such canned foods were coming down with the disease. C. botulinum bacteria are ubiquitous. They thrive in the earth and are spread as spores through dust in the air as well as on vegetables, fruits or in honey. Adults regularly ingest the microbes but customarily suffer no harm. The spores remain dormant in the adult intestine. For as yet unknown reasons, the intestines of some babies...
Kansas City continued to thrive the following day, walloping Philadelphia's starting pitcher, Larry Christenson, for four runs in the first inning. Christenson faced five batters and gave up a single, a double, a triple and a home run-to Aikens-before heading for the showers. Aikens got another home run the following inning for good measure, and the Royals tied the Series at two games apiece with a 5-3 victory...