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...Easter is too fickle for business," Robert Montgomery was saying one morning earlier this year on the floor of the venerable Philadelphia Flower Show. In years gone by, Montgomery explained, Easter struck the public as the proper time to plant, or at least to start thinking about it, and the nurseries went along. Easter proved a vexing starting gun for the nurserymen though -- people like Montgomery -- and it is easy to see why: one year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays...
...N.P.A. reacted to Aquino's battle cry by offering a cease-fire during Easter and the congressional elections in May, but Manila rejected the proposal. At the same time, however, many army officers faulted Aquino for not providing a comprehensive counterinsurgency plan to accompany her tough words. "We are like a dog running in circles looking for its tail," said one general. He could hardly have been comforted by Defense Minister Rafael Ileto's announcement last week that he planned to keep 40% of the military's 125,000 troops out of sight until after the May elections, lest voters...
...This action is of utmost importance, not just to the department, but to the White House, and the NSC so that IBC, which finds itself temporarily in dire financial straits, may have funds in days ahead to intensify its efforts...on behalf of the president's Easter peace proposal for Nicaragua...
...poaching in 1981, Claude Dallas Jr. was a surprisingly easy catch last week. Unarmed and toting a bag of groceries, Dallas, 37, was surrounded by FBI agents outside a convenience store in Riverside, Calif., ending a manhunt that began when he escaped from an Idaho prison last Easter...
Dallas, 37, became a folk hero to some after cutting his way through two prison fences on March 30, Easter Sunday, and fleeing into the high desert of southern Idaho and northern Nevada. He was serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter...