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Meanwhile, a mass drive against dissidents was in progress, designed to quell all opposition to the final imposition of a theocratic Muslim state. So sweeping was the roundup that the jails could scarcely contain the torrent of new prisoners. The revolutionary firing squads were working round the clock. In the week following the pro-and anti-Banisadr riots, more than 50 men, women and children were executed. Some of the victims, like the writer and publisher Ali Asghar Amirani, were accused of "strengthening the Shah's regime." Others were members of the Bahá'í faith, whose Iranian...
...Coca-Cola did in fact contain cocaine until 1906, when the company had to drop the drug from its secret formula...
According to the Administration, the House bill still does not contain enough big budget cuts for 1983 and 1984 and is filled with "bookkeeping gimmicks." For example, it reduces expenditures for entitlement programs like food stamps without adequately changing eligibility requirements. After meeting later in the week with key advisers, Reagan agreed to back the Stockman-prepared amendment. known on the Hill as "son of Gramm-Latta...
...goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more than 280,000 animals to contain a major outbreak...
...against importing livestock from infected areas. But elsewhere in the world, foot-and-mouth costs farmers tens of thousands of animals and billions of dollars a year. Scientists have developed vaccines against the viral disease, but these carry a risk of actually infecting the inoculated animal because they sometimes contain live viruses...