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...tranquil facade cannot conceal the fact that the gulf has become a focal point of geopolitical tension. The demise of Iran as a regional superpower has left the area in a vacuum; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has stirred fear. If the vision of a clash between Moscow and Washington over oil is the ultimate nightmare of gulf leaders, Iran's revolution has raised immediate concerns over regional rivalry and internal stability...
...Good evening ladies and gentleman, this is my bag, you can take it or leave it...I just flew in from Los Angeles and got air sick. Trouble was, nobody noticed...Can you guess where I buy my clothes? Sacks Fifth Avenue...I used to wear a vacuum cleaner bag, but that sucked...And now for a song. 'He ain't heavy, he's my baggie...
Pearl says she hopes the review "will place the assembly in a position of direct involvement in decision-making." The current problem, she observes, "is that when the assembly passes a resolution, it is in a complete vacuum--no one has to listen. We should be involved in the meetings where decisions are made, not just be stuck reacting to those decisions with resolutions...
Vice President Mondale tells us that Reagan "will fall like a crowbar ... awfully fast." Everyone knows that in a vacuum a peanut can fall equally fast...
...California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and at Los Alamos. There, scientists are dealing with a third kind of ray known as a neutral-particle beam. It is made up of particles that carry no electrical charge, such as neutral hydrogen atoms; it would be useful in the vacuum of space, where charged particles like protons and electrons tend to spread out. Development of particle beam weapons is perhaps as much as a decade behind HELS. But if the technology can be ironed out, these could be in military use by the mid-1990s...