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...Glaciologist Larry Mayo, is that the lake, now rising about 1 ft. a day, will spill out of its southern end into the Situk River (see chart), a salmon-spawning stream that is the economic lifeblood of Yakutat. If the lake overflows, the clear Situk could become a destructive torrent of silty water about 20 times its present volume, unfit for salmon and fishermen. "In another 500 to 1,000 years," says Mayo, "Hubbard Glacier could fill Yakutat Bay, as it did in about 1130." Susie Abraham, 85, a silver-haired elder of Yakutat's native Tlingit Indian tribe...
...torrent of regrettable statements began last year when the President labeled the Contras "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." Recently Secretary of State George P. Shultz insisted on our "moral duty" to help the rebel forces, and Reagan expounded his sentiments further in declaring the Contras "the moral descendants of the men at Valley Forge." In last month's Salient, John L. Worden concluded that aiding the Contras is "a moral imperative." When the administration and its supporters must repeatedly advertise that their policy is moral, it probably...
...flood started as a trickle in 1974, when the Government began permitting them for taxpayers who did not belong to a pension plan where they worked. But the flow of money into the accounts became a torrent in 1982, after Congress extended the program to virtually everyone. Under the current rules, working taxpayers may put as much as $2,000 a year into an IRA and deduct the contribution from gross income when filing their federal tax return. For those in the 50% bracket, it means an immediate saving of $1,000 in taxes for their $2,000 contribution. Savers...
...goes along. And in an effort to provide a setting for Capa, the author saturates the reader with the political and social details of Europe from 1913 to 1950. At numerous points in the book, Robert Capa, the man and the photographer, is lost in the torrent of information on war strategies and political twists. Whelan is too long on details and too short on analysis...
...committee of five Roman Catholic bishops released the first draft of a pastoral letter that denounced the "massive and ugly" failures of the American economy and called for a bold new effort to aid the poor both in the U.S. and abroad. Impassioned and provocative, the document aroused a torrent of reaction that ran to 10,000 pages of comments from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. While many liberals praised the letter as a blueprint for economic justice, conservatives complained that it was an unjustified assault on the foundations of capitalism...