Washington completed its second consecutive year of below-normal temperatures and one of the coldest Decembers on record yesterday, blunting a marked warming trend earlier in the 1980s that left Washingtonians gasping in record summer heat, preliminary weather figures showIt was encouraging news for those who have been preaching about the dreaded global warm-up but lousy news for that larger populace that is sick and tired of the near-unprecedented ice, snow and slush that have gripped the
The gardener's attention is now riveted on the tomato because (a thing others will think odd) although tomatoes are not planted out in Washington until May 10, January is the proper month to agonize over which tomato to growIf the plants grow well, two plants per adult will yield enough for most people. Your typical gardener commonly plants more than that, on the theory things will not go well at all.One false economy usually practiced by city gardeners is to jam in as many plants
The first decisive moment in the Romanian uprising came here on Saturday, Dec. 16, in front of the house of a popular, ethnic Hungarian priest facing imminent deportation for preaching sermons critical of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The crowd began gathering two days earlier, but it had been small up to now. Ninety percent of the people who would eventually participate in the uprising knew nothing about the priest, Laszlo Tokes, or his small Protestant churchBut there were Communist