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...inhabitants of what local CBers call Nickel City could not help wondering why they and their rural neighbors had been selected for the vengeful Winter of '77's most punishing assault so far. In fact, Buffalo's location on a narrow peninsula, where it catches moisture-laden winds off Lake Erie, contributes to its singular attraction for snow. Since fall, Buffalo has been smothered by an incredible 14 feet of snowfall. Last week drifts as high as 30 feet buried the roads in the area, paralyzing all business and movement. Winds up to 85 m.p.h. generated...
...Life. Marin has plenty of water -all the wrong kind. Its peninsula affords magnificent views of the Pacific, San Pablo Bay and Drakes Bay. But the county's fresh-water reservoirs are inadequate. For years the residents have been voting down bond issues that would have supplemented the reservoirs -partly on the theory that limiting water would be one way to restrict unwanted growth. But last week the water supply was so low that county officials ordered a tough system of enforced rationing. Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between...
...company holds assets of $300 million in rubber plantations and palm-oil industries on the Malay peninsula, yet it keeps its headquarters in Singapore and is registered in London. For years it had a reputation for mistreating and underpaying its workers, who bitterly dubbed the firm "Swine Bobby" (slang for pig feed) or "Slime Darby...
...public is that in the interests of the United States and Asian security, we should maintain troop levels in South Korea until a peace treaty is signed and the surrounding powers agree on a settlement or at least until there is a reduction of tensions on the Korean peninsula. I believe the United States has serious long term responsibilities in the area and particularly to the people of Korea and these responsibilities go beyond any particular regime. I have also taken issue publicly with criticism of the Korean government including restriction of academic freedom, trial by military courts and convictions...
Italian intellectuals were up in arms. Distinguished essayists wrote diatribes against "inflexible technocracy." Some even suggested banning Honda motorcycles from the Apennine peninsula as a way of exacting revenge for sullied national honor. The cause of all the indignation was what Italians saw as an outrageous cultural slight. It came from Japan, of all places, and was aimed at one of the most beloved of 19th century Italians: the impish little wooden marionette Pinocchio...