Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raid produced a rather bizarre footnote generated by my warped sense of humor. An officer briefing me on the raid apologized for its failure. I told him not to apologize, joking that no doubt they had brought back a baby water buffalo, and the North Vietnamese were going crazy trying to figure out why we had mounted a big operation for that purpose. The officer, presuming that the President's security adviser could not be totally mad, reported this to his superiors, who started a hunt for the animal. The troops in the field, convinced that Washington had lost...
Although these major issues will take a long time to resolve, the U.S. and Mexico have agreed to cooperate on less sensitive problems. They have launched bilateral ventures in arid land management, water control and the pooling of science and technology. Tijuana and San Diego are working on a joint program to control air pollution, which may become a model for other twin cities along the frontier. New pacts have been signed that should lead to greater cross-border cooperation in dealing with such crimes as narcotics smuggling and auto theft. And, as one State Department official puts...
...They are as different as fire and water," is the saying about the Chinese and Soviet brands of Communism. That incompatibility of elements could not have been more apparent than in Indochina, where Vietnamese troops launched new attacks against insurgents in Cambodia and thus heated up the conflict by proxy between China and the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia...
...accident, no safe method of storing nuclear wastes has been found, nor have questions about the effects of low-level radiation on the human body been satisfactorily answered. And, in the case of the Seabrook plant, located on the coast, there are questions of how the billion gallons of water Seabrook sucks in and spews out at hotter temperatures will affect marine life...
...COMING WEEK at Seabrook, the sanctity of private property rights must yield to the sanctity of human life. The occupiers will be unarmed and trained in nonviolence. We hope that the police will refrain from using their water hoses and attack dogs. And we hope a successful occupation will convince America to turn to a safer, saner energy future, one free of nuclear power...