Word: washing
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...Iowa caucuses. Out of that defeat charged the Reagan of yore, campaigning full time across New Hampshire and banging away again at all his old targets with stimulating vigor: "There is enough fat in the Federal Government that if you rendered it, there would be enough soap to wash the whole world." Some 22 position papers designed to portray Reagan as a positive thinker were filed and forgotten. Instead, Reagan presented once again his nostalgic vision of a day still to be recaptured, when the individual was great and the Government small, the U.S. flag and dollar respected everywhere...
Formosa Magazine printed 45,000 copies of its first issue and doubled its circulation in three months, according to a newsletter from the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Taiwan (ICDHRT), an organization with offices in Seattle, Wash., and Japan which attempts to publicize the plight of political dissidents in Taiwan. With the increase in circulation, however, came an increase in attacks, both verbal and physical, against the publication from enraged private citizens. Opposition members suspect that Taiwan's secret police agencies, the Taiwan Garrison Command and the Investigation Bureau, sanctioned the abuses...
Beneath it all, the Afghans are a pious people, even in days of war. After a hot, thirsty afternoon of shooting the enemy and, sometimes, executing prisoners who are not Muslims, the freedom-fighters never miss saying their prayers. First, they wash, and if there is no water, they use dirt. This has been the way of the Afghans since the reign of the Amirs and before...
...Jacinto when the flood-swollen river that runs through town burst its levees. Said Jane Hoff of the town officials' warning to leave: "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker. I was scared to death." In Palm Springs, levees burst along the Palm Canyon Wash and 1,000 people were sent to evacuation centers. Governor Jerry Brown sent 100 National Guardsmen to prevent looting...
Then last week eight-year-old Brian Ingram dug a dozen packets of weathered $20 bills from a bank of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash. The FBI determined from the serial numbers that the $4,000 was part of Cooper's loot. Using picks and shovels, agents unearthed fragments of several more bills, some buried 3 ft. deep. FBI officials speculate that the money and Cooper landed somewhere upstream and that floods washed the bills to their final resting place. Said FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been investigating the hijacking for more than eight years: "The money...