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...Adam Webb is not a party to that conversation. Not AALARM, not PBH, not AAA, not even (gasp!) The Crimson staff can announce the values of the Jewish community. Perhaps no student organization is truly qualified to make such announcements. But if there is one, it is not AALARM. It is Hillel. To argue the opposite is to deny a community of people the right to decide for themselves who and what they will...
...Geneva and Tunis devices, in each case attached to a commonly available E-cell electronic timer made by Plessey, USA, an electronics firm based in White Plains, N.Y. All three bombs used a distinctive, homemade version of the easily procurable high explosive PETN. All were powered by AAA- size batteries from the same manufacturer and the same lot. Clinching the case, the Hawaii bomber had left a fingerprint on the stub of his plane ticket. The print was identified as Mohammed Rashid...
...situation. Iraqi tanks had hardly arrived in Kuwait a week earlier when the majors started jacking up prices at gas pumps across the U.S. In the first four days, the price of self- serve, unleaded gas rose 7.1 cents per gal., according to an American Automobile Association (AAA) check of 1,400 stations. By last Friday prices were up an average of 18 cents per gal. Said a wholesaler: "Since this Kuwait thing, the price has been going up two, three, four times a day." No wonder Judy Bauer, a Chicago gas-station owner, lost track. Asked what...
Meanwhile, prices were rising simultaneously all along the distribution pipeline as wholesalers and retailers alike tried to cover the so-called replacement cost of buying new, more expensive supplies. Said Richard Hebert, a spokesman for the AAA: "It used to take six weeks for a jump in the price of crude oil to find its way to the pumps. Now it happens in six minutes...
...difficult to predict whether other Asian-American groups will follow the lead of AAA and eventually enter the realm of politics. But Asian-Americans say that until they can find a unified voice, the clubs will keep quiet on Asian affairs...