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...which he had vigorously favored at a 1978 European summit, "needs to be looked at anew." With only 5.3% inflation and 3.8% unemployment, West Germany is better off than many of its neighbors, but Schmidt warned in a television interview, "We are not the hen that laid the golden egg...
Buxted's Churkey is a gobbler killed just 52 days after hatching, when it reaches a weight of about 5 lbs. Then it is injected with and marinated in a special secret broth distilled from the flesh of older chickens of egg-laying age, and quick-frozen for shipment to stores. The result is a bird that has the size and flavor of a mature chicken but the tenderness of a much younger one. An added bonus: like all turkeys, Churkey has a higher meat-to-bone ratio than chickens...
When an epidemic of exotic Newcastle disease struck California in the early '70s, 12 million egg-laying hens died, or were destroyed to prevent the spread of the disease. This time rare birds are being killed by the thousands in an attempt to protect the $9 billion poultry industry. Agriculture Department task forces have destroyed some 30,000 pet birds, from Maine to Hawaii, mostly by gassing them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide...
...Khomeini's four conditions. Last Nov. 14, Carter issued an Executive order that froze more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. To unfreeze them now, explained the legal counsel for a major New York bank, would be "like putting an omelet back into the egg." Various corporations and individuals have liens against those assets to cover unpaid Iranian debts, and U.S. banks have "offset" a total of about $1.5 billion to cover their outstanding loans to Iran. Said David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "If the Iranians think they are going...
Still, not all Western delegations were happy with that compromise and the MacBride report itself had moved one British speaker to recount the story of the Anglican curate who sits down to breakfast with his bishop and finds an obviously bad egg on his plate. When the bishop offers to replace it, the curate, trying not to offend his host, protests: "Oh no, my lord. I do assure you, it is excellent in parts." The Western press may likewise find the new information order, as UNESCO seems likely to serve it up, good only in parts-and hence unpalatable...