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Last week Dr. Borlaug gave the keynote speech at a meeting of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome. To the bemusement of the assembled notables, he violently attacked "the current vicious, hysterical campaign against the use of agricultural chemicals being promoted today by fear-provoking, irresponsible environmentalists." Today's greatest danger, Borlaug pointed out. is the pressure put on food supplies by the world's rapidly growing population. Fully 50% of mankind is undernourished, perhaps another 15% is malnourished. To make matters worse, the soil in many developing nations is worn out, and crops...
...initial support of the reform-minded for California's action was quickly eclipsed by the almost universal approval of the new Authority's performance and promise. With great fanfare, the Authority initiated a house cleaning of the more vicious reform schools, accumulated data on youthful offenders, created two new penal programs, and opened two correctional facilities--a girls' school at Los Guilucos and one for boys at Paso Robles...
When you put these evil, vicious enemies of society in prison, they do not become Little Leaguers or Boy Scouts. Prison "reform" begins with a crackdown on these wild mavericks and the thoughtless idiots on the outside who support them...
...longer reluctant to resort to armed violence. Not even the Great Train robbers had used guns, and in the old days crooks often informed on their gun-toting colleagues. Now, said Sergeant Leslie Male, vice chairman of the Police Federation, "the war against crime is a war, a vicious war. It is no gentlemanly game of Bill Sikes against the bobby...
Wealthy Europeans and Americans built tens of thousands of fancy villas along the 200-mile coastline between Marseille and the Italian border, turning much of the Riviera into a private playground. To keep out trespassers, these "beach barons" erected high fences, stone walls and barbed wire, often patrolled by vicious guard dogs...