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...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...nual population growth rates estimated for mid- 1986 through mid-1987; major political events have been updated through 26 March 1987; military age fi... ...nded. Money: All money figures are in US dollars unless otherwise indicated. Political entities: Some of the countries, entities, dependencies, areas ... ...nstitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad CHAMKANI, Acting Cha... ...al from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) has two factions the Parchami faction has bee... ...ce (ANA), Emile Gumbs; Anguillan People's Party (APP), Bonald Webster Voting strength: ANA, 4 seats; APP, 2 seats; 1 independent Communists: none Memb... ... Lester Bird; United National Democratic Party (UNDP), Dr. Ivor Heath Voting strength: (1984 election) House of Representatives ALP, 16 seats; indepen... ...ces Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDE Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTER...

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...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...lf. The rare personality of this niiin — his simplicity, iinsellisliiicss, strength and daring, his priicticid knowl- edge, and above all his spirit o... ...ay, tlie current atljust- luent of the league dilticnlty can hardly aid in strengthening its position as a league. In the direction of compromise, two... ...d, he might have had to avoid the stool.—tor all that, we stand np for the party of Theocritus. What it the sheep of Provence are not lily-white, and ... ...t at Keeler's hotel, Albany. An early start was made Saturday morning, the party going via the Delaware and Hudson railroad to Vorheesville, N. Y., an... ...hkosh. Wis., William Denison Lyman, M. A., B. S., professor of English and Political Science nt Whitman college and Albert H. Tolman Ph. D.,Dean of Ch... ...dence in Cleveland where ho was keenly interested in all movements for the political betterment of tho city and the state. Mr. Garfield also became a ...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...s a member of the two clubs, and booked for many engagements to dinner and party. Now, this prince, upon whose financial operations be continual incre... ... They knew all about it. They banged their fists on the table and spoke of political “pulls,” the vending of votes, and so forth. Theirs was not the t... ...rvice generally. He has been made a citizen with a vote, consequently both political par- ties play with him. But that is neither here nor there. He w... ...which kindness he battered me about the legs with his tail, and I felt the strength of him and was proud. California had taken my place in the shallow... ...quiet, and vice versa, and then they told tales till the moon got up and a party of campers in the woods gave us all something to eat. Then came soft,... ...ch as ever they choose. They do not need knowledge of their own mili- tary strength to back their genial lawlessness. That regular army, which is a de...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvan... ...; court- ship, which is gone upon by proxy; conversation, which is largely political; and the delights of public oratory, fill in the long hours. But ... .... But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping, they are sai... ...ong pots of brass and adamant. Apia, the port and mart, is the seat of the political sickness of Samoa. At the foot of a peaked, woody mountain, the c... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...and in drafting these proposals; I am only surprised he should have been a party to enforcing them, perhaps the chief error in these islands of a man ... ...ce; only it must be borne in view that Tamasese all the while continued to strengthen himself in Leulumoenga, and Laupepa sat inactive listening to th... ...s, at this period, an adventurer of the name of Gibson. He claimed, on the strength of a romantic story, to be the heir of a great English house. He h...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...hey were rich, they had decided that they must celebrate. They must give a party—that was the idea. But how to explain it—to the daughters and the nei... ...ewport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American Aristocracy. As a rule they spent a part of every Sab bath—after ... ...ndation of worshiping praises. After that, the two knew the limit of their strength, and accepted their fate. They surrendered humbly, and aban doned... ...ies of joy and gratitude gave them. In the first days, while the child had strength to hold a pencil, she wrote fond little love notes to her mother, ... ... to know it, but Helen spent the night at the Sloanes’. There was a little party there, and, although she did not want to go, and you so sick, we pers... ...uation that may interrupt our happiness—like the poli tician who runs the political gantlet for office one day, and the next day, because the horizon... ...not get any great pleasure out of them, as a rule. Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth f...