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...Newfoundland's southern coast, then pump it into tanker ships. White estimates it will cost less than a penny a gallon to get water from the lake to his potential buyers. Bulk water now sells for about 2[cents] per gal. in the U.S. At 66 million gal. a shipload, twice a week, that's a lot of pennies...
...Haiti's military, emboldened by their success at turning away the shipload of American military trainers aboard the Harlan County last October, believe that the U.S. lacks the guts for a sustained occupation. "It'd be just like Somalia," says a senior Haitian officer. "Clinton will run away when the first U.S. soldier is returned in a body bag." A military intervention, however, need not be open-ended. To limit the commitment, Clinton could embrace Canada's proposal to train expatriate Haitians to serve as the core of a force designed to protect the returned, legitimate government. Together with...
Friendly Sales Rep at Eastern Mountain Sports: We just ran out. We got a whole shipload at the beginning of the Christmas season, but now they're all gone...
Virginia has always been in the forefront of racial change. It was at Jamestown in 1619 that the first shipload of captive Africans later destined for slavery disembarked. It was at Appomattox in 1865 that the Confederacy surrendered. It was in Virginia in the 1950s that men who fancied themselves learned penned some of the last erudite-sounding but morally bankrupt justifications for segregation. And it will be in Richmond on Jan. 13 that there will be a black hand on the Bible when Lawrence Douglas Wilder is sworn in as Virginia's 73rd Governor. It is not only...
...shown signs of economic growth while under a virtual siege. Relaxation of rigid socialist controls has let new businesses emerge. Previously shuttered stores have reopened with fresh supplies of furniture, clothing and shoes. People can once again buy and sell prawns on the open market. The arrival of a shipload of Soviet cement late last year set off a modest building boom. "There has been no change in our overall aims," asserts Trade Minister Manuel Aranda da Silva. "But you can say that Frelimo has grown up and is now more mature." That growth will be hard to sustain, though...