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Marglin said that the Congress would have doneaway with Gramm-Rudman soon, because it wouldn'tbe able to withstand the political pressureagainst deep budget cuts. The court's ruling was"a neat, surgical way. The same result could havebeen achieved in a more underhanded way," he said...
After the blockade began, Jonathan appealed to the U.S. and Britain for an organized airlift to help his country withstand the South African pressure. He threatened to turn to East bloc countries if the West did not respond. Nevertheless, two weeks ago, Jonathan sent a delegation to Pretoria to discuss a settlement. Diplomatic sources in Maseru suggest that General Lekhanya, a member of the group, decided to stage his coup when the South Africans told him that they would continue the blockade and might openly raid A.N.C. bases in Lesotho if the country did not change its policies toward Communist...
...skies are overcast, vehicles are not permitted to move during the day. Trucks or jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...
Stoddard says that much of the collection is on fragile paper (especially the correspondence) which cannot withstand much wear at all. "Our problem for the future," he says, will be to adequately preserve the letters while still making them "accessible to all scholars to examine." At this point, microfilming is the best solution, Stoddard says...
...said several problems still awaiting resolution include: distinguishing real warheads from decoys; researching new manufacturing technology that would keep costs down; and determining how to build satellites that could withstand the "hostile conditions" which would occur during a nuclear...