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This week in Boston retired Contractor Dino Di Carlo, 61, will don colonial-style breeches, waistcoat and peruke. Then he will mount a horse and head northwestward through suburban Middlesex County, re-enacting Paul Revere's ride 200 years earlier to warn Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming to seize the colonists' military supplies. Di Carlo's trip will be the first major commemorative event since the U.S. Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities...
...Pentagon, which spends millions on intelligence gathering and assessment, failed to adequately warn the President of the collapse of South Viet Nam's armed forces...
Franco's return to power set off a largely behind-the-scenes struggle. Right-wing veterans of the Falange movement warn that if dissidence festers, Spain faces the kind of disorder that they now feel exists in Portugal. Opposed to the Old Guard are reformers who argue that if Spain does not move toward change, discontent will become uncontainable...
Other American scientists, however, warn that reducing the northward flow of the Pechora's relatively warm fresh-river water could reduce the temperature of the Arctic Ocean and cause the ice to expand. Or the Arctic Ocean could become saltier, resulting in a lower freezing point and causing the ice to melt. In either case, the river-reversal scheme has the potential to cause major climatological repercussions...
While I deplore the Forbes-Boucha incident and acknowledge the need to further clean up the game, I would warn also against creeping alarmism...