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While our plane came in for a landing, Siberia loomed as a forbidding vista of seismic scars and snowcapped mountain ranges. Our destination: a tiny pioneer village aptly named Alonka (wasteland). The temperature: 50° F. below zero. On even chillier days, the cold at Alonka becomes literally audible: the moisture of exhaled breath freezes instantly, and the colliding crystals make a rustling sound. The Jeep-like vehicles used by the construction crews had quilts on their hoods; at a bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun...
Carter's campaign to force Government rulemakers to think before they promulgate may not be the moral equivalent of war, but if he wins a few skirmishes he will be blessed from Bangor to Chula Vista...
...poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored at a dock. Painted in 1943, it is almost identical technically and in mood to his turn-of-the-century vista of Evian. In an age when one is accustomed to an artist's regular reappraisal and redirection of his own work, this continuity is rather a surprise. It is almost as if Binet, having once perfected his craft, spent the rest of his life hermetically sealed away from the explorations...
...Carolyn Hagner Shaw and grandmother Helen Ray Hagner have made the rules for Washington's social games as the register's publishers since 1930. Carter Appointee Mary King, for example, is certainly the deputy director of ACTION, which oversees such volunteer programs as the Peace Corps and VISTA, but Mrs. Murray sternly ruled that King be listed simply-and only-as the wife of Peter Bourne, special assistant to the President. In the Green Book, married women are never allowed to be listed under their maiden names; that would give the Wrong Idea. Divorcing couples are barred from...
Meanwhile, the flow of new immigrants continues. In the heavily traveled Chula Vista corridor between Tijuana and San Diego, beefed-up U.S. patrols picked up 35,100 illegals last month, compared with 21,300 in August of last year. Says a Border Patrol agent: "They are anticipating that they are going to heaven in the U.S. where all the goodies are." Many of them probably never heard of Carter's program. "And even if they knew," says Leonel Castillo, Immigration and Naturalization commissioner, "the prime factor is jobs." No matter why they come, many of their predecessors...