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...American Highway as it crosses Chile, the usual truck traffic was missing, and the few cars on the road had to dodge miguelitos, nail-studded objects intended to puncture tires. In the capital of Santiago and other cities, thousands of workers waited in vain for public buses and taxis that never came. Downtown shops in Santiago were closed, and there was such a dearth of traffic that some of the smog that envelops the city lifted, allowing peaks of the Andes to be seen to the east...
...West Germany, another of South Africa's leading commercial partners. Bonn consistently opposes trade sanctions as counterproductive and, in any event, considers them pointless in this case without the cooperation of the U.S. and Japan. Several of the smaller powers, including the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland, called in vain for the E.C. to take stronger action...
McNeely is proud he lives clean. So what if he won't go to movies in which they take the Lord's name in vain? So what if Sunset Carson is his hero? So what if he drinks sarsaparilla at the Crystal Palace? "The people are beginning to realize they're either gonna have law enforcement," the marshal said,"or they're gonna let the riffraff take over the town." For his part, no matter whether he is reappointed for two more years this fall, the man is stuck on Tombstone. The other day, he traded his Winnebago...
...accused the Montagnier team of greediness. "I don't get any money," he emphasized, pointing out that royalties on the test go to its manufacturers and the U.S. Treasury, not his personal bank account. "The fight is theirs--to get the money," he charged. "My name is used in vain." But Pasteur scientists would not reap personal profits either. The proceeds, explains Spokeswoman Caroline Chaine, would go to the institute, which "lives on the funds and the patents of its research." Says she: "We want our work to be recognized...
...then acquaintances, then family friends. His children witness the double-dealing and slaughter, committed by Germans and by Russian-sponsored Belorussian insurgents with equal abandon. Long before adolescence, the Kabbelski children are plunged into a world void of moral order. Kabbelski's soul-destroying deals are, moreover, made in vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians, who are maneuvering for postwar advantage, he becomes a fugitive. The family breaks up, but he and some of his clan finally fetch up in Australia, where they live on scraps of bitter memory and paranoid imaginings...