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...California desert adjoining Arizona has been picked almost clean of saguaro, red-barrel cacti and other species. It takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that...
Brinkley, not eager to uproot his life in Washington with Second Wife Susan plans to commute to New York for a year and see if things work out. It is a big if that has network executives wondering: Can Brinkley, the son of a Wilmington, N.C. railway clerk, outdraw that rich, bad bunch from Dallas? Prime time will tell-or, as Edward R. Murrow, the granddaddy of the laconic news style, used to say, "Good night and good luck...
...dishes ideal for snorting cocaine. More than 15,000 "head shops"* across the country cater to drug users; they are at the heart of a thriving drug paraphernalia industry that may take in more than half a billion dollars a year. So far it has proved nearly impossible to uproot the shops: virtually every state and local law banning the sale of drug paraphernalia has been declared unconstitutional by the courts. Now the Federal Government is stepping into the fray-and could emerge a loser as well...
Beheshti returned to Iran in 1970, at a time when the Shah was trying to uproot all opposition to his regime. His associates at the time recall that Beheshti remained studiously noncommittal. "Beheshti would never side with anyone " says one clerical colleague. "The man was intelligent, capable, knowledgeable and charismatic, but his politics were cynical." Two years ago, with opposition to the Shah growing, Beheshti finally joined the forces led by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which were calling for an end to the monarchy. Yet even then Beheshti attempted to hedge his bets. During the revolution, he tried to ensure...
...police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable on the victims' own soil, with or without their consent. It was necessary to uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend...