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...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...
...dusk to work on into the night. Finally, a lonely light burns in the President's study, and the announcer says, "He's not finished yet." What the viewer is supposed to wonder, of course, is whether Reagan, who will be 70 in February, could handle the load...
...Wary customers are still doing most of then" buying for cash rather than on credit. In California the Carter Hawley Hale chain reports that in the first half of the year there was a 2½% drop in credit sales. Consumers in June decreased their debt load by $3.46 billion, after a $3.43 billion drop in May. Any cash left over is now being stashed away in savings accounts. The level of savings, which was down to a paltry 3.5% of disposable income in January, has risen to 4.7%. Says William McDonald of Woodward & Lothrop, a Washington-based department store...
Meanwhile, police authorities presented the facts of the case to Mugabe, who ordered Tekere's arrest. The next morning, Chief Police Superintendent John Carse and other armed officers surrounded Tekere's heavily guarded estate in St. Martins, a suburb of Salisbury. They confiscated a load of weapons, and then engaged in a lengthy discussion with Tekere and his lawyer. At one point, Tekere strode jauntily over to share a joke with newsmen. Said he: "I'm just talking to my friends, the police. That...
Graceful and majestic, their delicate, almond-shaped leaves framed against summer skies, elms once grew thickly in the forests of the eastern U.S. and served as shade trees along thousands of Main Streets. Then, in the early 1930s, disaster struck. A load of elm logs arrived from Europe infested with a parasitic fungus. First identified in 1919 by Dutch plant pathologists, the fungus, Ceratocystis ulmi, invades the elm's vascular system, clogging it and causing death. Beginning in the Cleveland and New York City areas, then in scores of other communities across the nation, American elms died...