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...hostility is mutual. Though COSEP Director Enrique Dreyfus insists that his organization "is not a political party," the Sandinistas regard the business community as a distinct political threat. "COSEP is not a group of businessmen," but a group of politicians , " says Interior Minister Tomás Borge, a member of the Sandinista directorate. "They question the revolution. We're not refusing to talk to them. But what we will discuss is what role they can play within the revolution...
...present their show, only to find the entire community sitting in churchlike attendance on a single, tiny TV screen glowing with disco action from the dance floor of "American Bandstand." Searching for towns where progress has not yet stolen their audience, they take their ramshackle operation into the interior and finally are driven to big cities buzzing with the din of portable radios and the "civilized" hustle of discos, drug deals, and leisure suits. More and more, the troupe's show business must take a backseat to the oldest profession, and Lord Gypsy is forced to consider a proposition...
...living viruses could be used to vaccinate against viral diseases. Fuller developed the geodesic dome after he discarded the square and turned to the triangle as the most stable figure in nature. His domes, built from a collection of triangles, enclose, per pound of material, 30 times the unobstructed interior space of any known alternative clear-span engineering system...
Ronald Reagan's love of the wildness at his Rancho del Cielo and his designation of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior represent a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality [Jan. 51. How would Reagan feel if his "ranch in the sky" were sacrificed to the drillers, diggers and scrapers as an insignificant contribution to a short-term energy solution...
...door strictures, which went into effect in 1979. The Reagan team, too, has found that for Cabinet appointees the prestige outweighs the financial burdens. The only person known to have refused a top job solely because of a potential conflict was Clifford Hansen, Reagan's first choice for Interior Secretary, whose family holds grazing rights on federal lands. Such a conflict would have been forbidden, justifiably, even under previous rules...