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...reformist military officers ousted Molina's successor, General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena. A year later Duarte became the junta President. He helped begin a sweeping land reform and the nationalization of local banks and export industries, thereby further alienating the oligarchy. Conservatives began calling Duarte a "watermelon"-Christian Democratic green on the outside, red on the inside-especially during the recent election campaign, when he declared that he favored a national "dialogue." What Duarte meant was that he would seek to create a climate in which any rebels who wanted to reject violence could return to take part...
...militias to persuade army troops to break ranks by dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight the Shi'ites, it will break apart like a watermelon dropped on the pavement." Not only did the Lebanese army perform creditably last week, but, more important, it did not split apart. For the first time in eight years, the Lebanese government had an army that it could count upon...
...down Rudd Creek Canyon, burying at least five houses, damaging 100 more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come help. They just showed...
Creativity and improvisation went into many entries. Chesrios, stuffed animals and marshmallow fluff were the secrets to success behind a few of the surviving eggs. A watermelon, a potted plant and several huge snowballs weren't so lucky. Cornell Daily...
...that were not enough, a late freeze in the Deep South left fruit and vegetable crops devastated. Heavy rains had already delayed the planting of corn, watermelon and tobacco in Georgia, and rice, wheat and cotton in Louisiana. The apple and peach farmers in the northern part of Georgia found most of their potential harvests frozen on the trees...