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...sharp, we set out at convoy speed of 60 m.p.h. to accommodate the slowest vehicle, a bus carrying troops to the "operational area" near the Mozambique border. Two machine gun-mounted Toyota pickups cruised front and rear, while a third rode herd, keeping the cars spaced far enough apart to avoid offering a tempting target. Aboard the radio-equipped trucks were a dozen police in camouflage gear, toting high-powered Belgian automatic rifles. A few also carried Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
...smoke, silence, emptiness and slow decay, an imperceptible leaching that was a strong smell long before it was a calamity. The knotting of the city's innards into dead hanks, not combustion, but blockage, the slowest cruelest death...
...been added, and by 1960 a third. The 5 billion mark is estimated to be only 13 years away, and by 2012 world population could be 8 billion. The country with the world's fastest-growing population in terms of annual percentage increases is Kuwait at 5.9%, the slowest, East Germany at -.3%. The U.S. growth rate...
Representation of women and minorities is growing slowest in tenured professorships...
...tipped the result 5 to 4 against the conservatives. In a First Amendment case, Burger may have been following Blackmun. The junior Minnesotan expanded the free-speech protection of advertisements and cited with approval a dissent from an opinion he himself had written only a year earlier. Once its slowest writer of opinions, Blackmun no longer half kills himself by personally double-checking every case citation in every opinion he writes or joins, and he is keeping pace with the other Justices...