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Reagan still has five Cabinet posts to fill. One prospective appointment provoking a ruckus is that of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. A Denver attorney, Watt is leading a fight to open up more federal wilderness land to mining and oil drilling in Colorado and Wyoming. Reagan said in Watt's defense last week: "I think he's an environmentalist himself, as I think I am. He is fighting environmental extremists...
...recordings and his freewheeling concert appearances, at which he favored iridescent jack ets, rhinestone-studded shoes and a full-length, crimson-lined cape. After he began wooing a new generation of listeners in the 1970s by touring the country with a rock-style light show and a 2,700-watt electronic amplification system, he told an interviewer: "My more conservative colleagues regard me as an infidel. They say I'm a showman, and I'm proud...
...Richard Watt, in his book Bitter Glory, describes an incident that gave rise to this recurring view of the romantic Pole. On Sept. 1, 1939, "two squadrons of the Polish 18th Uhlans attacked a battalion of German infantry near Korjanty in the [Polish] Corridor. At this precise moment German tanks and armored cars appeared . . . There were a few other instances of inadvertent contact between German armor and Polish cavalry. But almost always the Polish 'charge' was simply an attempt to break out of a German encirclement...
...from representatives of developing countries. By the year 2020, they will be using as much energy as the developed world now consumes; but they have neither the money nor the resources to pay for expensive oil. Said Carlos Castro Madero, an official of the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission: "Every watt of energy the U.S. fails to produce by nuclear power must be produced by oil. Every barrel of oil burned by the U.S. is a barrel for which we must compete on the market, and this means higher prices...
Ordinary light, whether from the sun or a 60-watt bulb, consists of a jumble of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies. But a laser-for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-generates a beam whose waves all have the same frequency and are perfectly synchronized so as to reinforce each other. Beams from very powerful lasers can burn through hardened steel...