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...years, the most difficult hurdle for Soviet citizens seeking asylum in the U.S. was obtaining their own government's permission to emigrate. Now thousands of would-be refugees who have been granted precious exit documents are facing an unexpected obstacle. Last week the U.S. embassy in Moscow announced that it has exhausted its entire 1988 budget for resettling Soviets and would process no more refugee visas until...
...this is costing the nation. Economist Arlen Leholm of North Dakota State University ventures that his state alone will lose $2.7 billion in crops, lower federal farm subsidies and reduced farm spending. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service's William Fecke estimates that in Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas the precious topsoil of 750,000 acres of farm and grazing land has been blown away by the angry wind, an additional 7 million acres is damaged and 12 million more threatened. "If the wind keeps up," Fecke says, "we may see chunks of the Northern Plains blowing to New England...
Nothing shows yet that he can go beyond that figure, and until he proves that he will do something with the 30 percent support he seems to have a lock on, the party will have precious little incentive to answer...
Since February, Lamar and his brothers Nelson Bunker and William Herbert Hunt (estimated combined fortune: $1.2 billion) have been defendants in a New York lawsuit in which Peru-owned Minpeco SA alleges that the Hunts' manipulation of the silver markets caused the 1980 crash in the price of that precious metal. The Hunts pleaded innocent, saying that silver's tumble cost them $1.1 billion...
...title story, a dreamy old sage steps out of his time machine with a typically Bradburian message: Utopia lies a century ahead. In fact, the traveler has never ventured farther than his laboratory. He fakes his trips in order to provide the earth with its most precious commodity: hope...