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Despite his leave of absence, Stewart says he does not plan to abandon teaching permanently. He said he hopes he can arrange to be in Cambridge three days a week after the next academic year. He said, however, that he does not foresee the opportunity to teach during his first year as the center's director...
...drug crackdown began to pick up speed last April, when Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was murdered in retaliation for his strenuous antidrug efforts. The assassination, the first ever of a Cabinet-level official in Colombia's history, shocked the nation and persuaded President Belisario Betancur Cuartas to abandon his reluctance to enforce an existing extradition treaty with the U.S. Since then, 78 alleged drug traffickers have been requested by the U.S., and Betancur has signed extradition papers for six of them. According to the treaty, however, the Colombians must first face charges and serve sentences in their...
...hearts: in a 26-year-old woman, who survived for only six hours, and in a 59-year-old man, who died four days after surgery. In each case, Barnard "piggybacked" the animal organ onto the patient's own heart to act as a supplementary pump. He decided to abandon the technique because of the poor results and the risks of becoming "emotionally attached" to donor chimpanzees, which, he says "are very much like humans." Barnard is nonetheless enthusiastic about the Baby Fae case and has no qualms about the use of baboons, which, he says, are shot on sight...
...page report, the commission painted a grim picture of artful operators who slip by current provisions of the federal Bank Secrecy Act. They pour huge amounts of cash into banks almost with blithe abandon, then withdraw it practically at will. The present law, passed in 1970, calls for a bank to notify federal authorities whenever a deposit exceeds $10,000. The law, though, has often been ineffective, in part because of wrist-slapping fines of only $1,000 against banks that fail to report the large deposits...
Sony still sells 75% of its products to consumers and will not entirely abandon the home market. But Morita hopes that by 1990 half the firm's sales will come from industry, where the profits are bigger and the customers less fickle...