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The Guardian of London, in a front-page report from Sydney Tuesday, said that one suggestion due to be discussed by tribal elders of the Dharawal people was that Botany Bay (so called because of the exotic plant life found there by Captain Cook) should change its name to "Gillingarie," a word in the Dharawal language meaning "land that belongs to us all."
"The party elders heard about his desire to join, realized at once that Reagan was not doctrinary material.
This is a district which only "one Democrat had won since Adolf Hitler was running Germany," announces habitual double-dribbler Mark Shields on both Capital Gang and NewsHour . The Republican elders take more guff from the quotable Shields, who characterizes them on NewsHour as more concerned with "re-election" than the "revolution" they promised three years ago.
"Let's just say that somewhere Dr. Joycelyn Elders is smiling."
(Henry Ford once gave his workers free copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion .)