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several days, to riding about in buses while their fate was decided. Neither legislative bodies, governors, nor judges have yet agreed on how excess prisoners should be handled. Internal revenue rules for handling inventory have been suggested: LIFO, that is, Last In, First Out has been suggested, as has been FIFO, or First In, First Out, as well as LILO, Last In, Last Out, and a continuation of what seems to be present policy, FILO, First In, Last Out.
The international waste problem involving such things as nuclear fallout, acid rain, pollution of the oceans and of international waters is all under negotiation. There is some possibility of progress towards improvement. However, the more difficult problem of what to do with deposed dictators, most of them formerly recognized as friends of the United States, is one that weighs heavily on our minds and tugs at our heartstrings. Somoza of Nicaragua could find no safe haven before he was killed. The Shah of Iran, denied permanent residence in the United States, died without real security, although his close supporters found shelter in Switzerland. DuValier, for old time colonial reasons one assumes, and possibly because of his French name, has been given temper * rary residence in France. Ferdinand Marcos remains in a kind of half-way house in Hawaii.
Richard Nixon, having moved from his retreat in San Clemente, rebuffed when he sought an apartment in New York, has taken up residence in New Jersey, while Spiro Agnew enjoys the sort of desert exile of Palm Springs.
Perhaps a solve-all solution is in order, such as a biannual shuttle launch sending a cargo of dictators, life-sentenced prisoners, nuclear waste and common Rappahannock trash off the face of the earth.
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