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Kennedy's specific appeals were for programs both unrealistic and increasingly unpopular with many Americans. But on this night this audience, out of conviction or nostalgia, or a little of both, cheered his plea for national health insurance, environmental protection and his $12 billion federal jobs program ("We cannot solve problems by throwing money at them, but we dare not throw out our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference...
Billy last week insisted that all he offered the Libyans was friendship. Said he at a hastily called news conference in Plains, Ga.: "They were unpopular with everyone but me ... I was the only friend they had in the U.S." On that assertion at least, no one has challenged Billy Carter...
...University of Wisconsin in Madison, scientists have resorted to cloning, hybridization and other techniques to develop many kinds of disease-resistant elm. But none look like Ulmus americana, and all proved unpopular. Says Plant Pathologist Eugene Smalley: "The resistance thing is the easy part. Getting a tree that nurseries will use, that's tough." Smalley's best hope: a rare hybrid called the Sapporo Autumn Gold elm, a cross of Japanese and Siberian elms. It resists the disease and, at least in its youth, resembles the American...
...manifestation of Russian xenophobia is Sinophobia. On the streets of Moscow, for example, the occasional Chinese visitor inspires something palpably different from and deeper than the resentment that Muscovites display toward the thousands of Third World exchange students who attend Patrice Lumumba Friendship of Peoples University. Those foreigners are unpopular because they have access to hard-currency stores, and because of their comparatively generous government stipends and their notoriety as black marketeers. On a bus or a metro car, a dark-skinned foreigner will often hear someone behind him muttering "Chernomazy" (literally blackface, but every bit as insulting as "nigger...
...promote muscle development but are outlawed in international competition. A few athletes have defected to the West with tales of widespread steroid use, but such charges are difficult to prove. Still the Soviet athletic establishment is under intense pressure to succeed, and athletes are sometimes asked to take up unpopular sports. Several years ago, the Sports Committee decided that Olympic gold could be mined from handball-a sport not seriously pursued in the Soviet Union. Word went out to the local sports schools to set up crash training programs for gandbolisty. "We are proud of such 'interference,' " said...