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...horrors of addiction have hit Detroit, once relatively heroin-free, with a force beyond the usual tragic toll of broken lives and deaths by overdose. Since last August, there has raged an all-out war for control of the booming $350 million drug market. So far this year, it has claimed 40 lives, an average of one every four days. The dead: penny-ante pushers and some major dealers grabbing for a larger piece of the action and killed by their peers...
...meeting, James H. Roche, chairman of the GM Board, announced that General Motors would spend $150 million to express "our all-out commitment to the complete fulfillment of all that the American public expects...
Paul Solman, the Boston organizer for the Davis petitioners and an editor of Boston After Dark, described the three letters as part of an "all-out blitz" on the part of the university to persuade alumni to vote against Davis. Bo Burlingham, a BAD colleague of Solman, accused the BUAA Nominating Committee of 'running scared" in his BAD column, "Bottom of the News" on April...
...increasingly unhappy with their dependency on American oil interests. Following the price hike from 23.2 to 28.5 cents per barrel on February 18 by the five major Western oil suppliers to Japan, Japan's Minister of International Trade and Industry urged the Japanese petroleum refining industry to put up all-out resistance to the price rise. At the same time, the Finance Minister stated Japan had to make epochal changes in her policy of securing natural resources for her industries...
...United Nations forces Israel to surrender the land it acquired during the Six-Day War, a gross injustice will have taken place. Egypt lost that land in an all-out military war that it declared and therefore has no more a right to it than any other nation that loses territory...