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...rebels, lifting their chances to win the military struggle. In the event they do win, they would almost certainly turn out to be even more authoritarian than the present government, and El Salvador would join Cuba and Nicaragua as a Soviet client state. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé publicly accused some Congressmen of wanting to "wash their hands of Central America like Pontius Pilate" and charged that "un der the cloak of being concerned about human rights" they would "impose a course of action" that actually would help the leftists in Central America...
...Gene Kelly talks about Jackson's "native histrionic intelligence and his great wit. He knows when to stop and then flash out like a bolt of lightning. There are a lot of dancers who can go 90 miles an hour, but Michael is too clever for just that." From Fred Astaire comes perhaps the ultimate tribute: "My Lord, he is a wonderful mover. He makes these moves up himself and it is just great to watch. I think he just feels that way when he is singing those songs. I don't know how much more dancing he will take...
...source of commercial timber. At Oak Ridge, botanists are examining samples of soil for traces of metals such as aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest resources in Raleigh: "Initial answers for this phenomenon will probably be a combination of total nonsense, the truth and lots in between." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus
Cornell(76)--Lan Palmer 1-2--4; Brad Bomba 6-0--12, Kan Bantum 7-4--18. Drew Martin 5-2--12 John Bajusz 8-12--20. Sam Givens 2-6--10. Derek Williams 0-0--0, Fred Hedengren 0-0--0. Eric King 0-0--0. Andy Loder 0-0--0. Totals...
...University of Colorado's Larry Esposito found that 1978 sulfur dioxide levels in the Venusian atmosphere were 50 times as high as expected. Since then, the sulfur dioxide lev els have been slowly tapering off, just as they drop after a major volcanic eruption on earth. Another investigator, Fred Scarf of TRW Inc., the spacecraft's builders, disclosed that an on-board instrument called a plasma-wave detector had recorded repeated lightning discharges over two mountain regions. On earth, such electrical activity commonly accompanies volcanic outbursts...