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Even food aid would be almost useless, since the primary cause of the Soviet Union's meat and vegetable shortage is its primitive storage and distribution system. More than half of all fruits and vegetables end up unfit for human consumption, and the same thing would inevitably happen to American shipments. Mikhail Gorbachev's path to salvation must lead away from centralized socialist planning and toward a market economy. Any future American assistance will probably be aimed at pushing him down that road...
...LOOK WHAT THE IRS PAYS FOR. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has cracked its regulatory whip at a descendant of the Marquis de Sade, an exporter of French champagne. The issue was not unfit bubbly but the bottle's label: a drawing of a nude woman with a chain across her outstretched arms. A new label shows the woman gowned, holding flowers...
...letter was clearly worded and clearly confrontational. It deliberately singled out the undergraduates concentrating in Social Studies and branded them unfit for the fine teaching of Sociology graduate sudents. Davis suggested that Social Studies could simply refill its teaching ranks "from, say, the Cafe Pamplona...
...turned away and harassed for the attempt. His homes and car were repeatedly and imaginatively vandalized, doubtless by ever present security forces; repair workers whom he hired were threatened with police reprisals. The country cottage where he celebrated his 40th birthday was officially ordered vacated, one day later, as unfit for human habitation. Havel was never physically tortured, although on at least one occasion a policeman threatened, "Today you're going to get so beat up that you'll have your trousers full...
...alarmingly large, and scientists reported evidence that a second hole was developing over the Arctic. Whether or not all of the dire predictions come to pass, they underscore a chilling message: the planet is in grave trouble. If nations do not take drastic action, it could one day be unfit as a human habitat...