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...York Times (8 April) reports that plans ate being drawn up for the introduction of American combat forces in Latin America. There is bipartisan support to send a "message" via M16s that Marxist elements influenced by Cuba and the Soviet Union be eliminated from Central America." The CIA's mining of Nicaraguan harbors, the transformation of Honduras into an American military base, and the U.S. game of "nuclear chicken", ramming Soviet subs, are no "exercises" but war provocations. And Harvard is doing it's part for the anti-Soviet war drive by trying to crush students who mobilize against...
...electronic brain could be perfected, it would need a capacity to distinguish between the most minute nuances of languages and psychology. A common example: to translate the phrase, "Mary had a little lamb," a computer must distinguish between twenty-eight meanings such as "Mary owned the lamb," "Mary ate the lamb," "Mary gave birth to a lamb," or "Mary engaged in sexual activity with a little lamb." Because no researcher has yet solved this problem society-at least for a time-is till bafe from an electronic "Big Brother...
...heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade Habré ate from the same plate with us when he came to visit," the commander says...
...declining, American men continue to consume an average of about 500 mg of cholesterol a day, and women 350 mg, in both cases about 60% more than the Heart Association recommends. About 40% of our daily calories are taken in as fat; this is about 30% more than Americans ate 60 years ago, and nearly three times the amount consumed by the Japanese and some African and Latin American populations...
...trying to save money by waiting for the food to come out for free. But the same employees probably laugh at presidential advisor Edwin Meese's suggestion that people sleep in shelters for the homeless because it's cheaper. The hungry people scraped the sawdust off the pizza and ate what could be salvaged...