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...supporters strove to prove that she has a nationwide following. Desai's problems with his predecessor are far from over. Gandhi has announced that she may campaign for re-election after she is released. Predicts C.M. Stephen, the Congress I parliamentary leader, "she will be back like thunder...
...RAIN: cold, clammy, pervading rain that leaked through the tent and soaked the sleeping bag. The sky bode more ill than good. There was no thunder though, which left me no excuses. Moreover, I had specifically asked 'Ranger Bob' the night before what the streams would be like, reminding him I would be making the hike alone. Stoned, but still the authority, he said "no problem...
...Some have also urged that the U.S., which pays 25% of UNESCO's budget ($303 million this year), withdraw from the body if the declaration is adopted. In a letter to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, New York's Senator Daniel Moynihan last month called on the U.S. to "thunder our contempt for this contemptible document." In Paris, the 38-member U.S. delegation has been lobbying quietly to water down the declaration. But the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times last week editorialized against compromise. Demanded the Times: "What on earth have Pravda and the New York Times...
...company had known for some time that these tires are a severe problem, with manydefective failures," Thunder Joan Claybrook, chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Last week, after months of angry negotiations, NHTSA pressed an agreement out of Firestone to recall its old 500 model steel-belted radials, which had experienced an unusual number of tread separations and blowouts...
...cover the Japanese invasion. Later he covered both the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the action of World War II. After disillusionment with Time's bias for Chiang K'ai-shek and a fight with Luce, White broke away from time and co-wrote a bestseller, Thunder Out of China (1946), dealing directly with what Time attempted to ignore...