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...organizations to Israel for training in community organization. Israeli 1987 legislation prohibits any future arms sales to South Africa, and severely curtails cultural, athletic, scientific, and other ties with Pretoria, while Italy and Great Britian continue selling tanks, armored vehicles and missiles to South Africa. Moreover, South Africa receives almost half its crude oil from Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Egypt, and Iran. Recent allegations of Israeli-South African nuclear ties have been stifled by the October 27 State Department declaration that the U.S. has "no indication of U.S. missile technology transfers from Israel to South Africa...
...Almost all telephone lines in the Leverett House towers and some lines in McKinlock Hall were knocked out for several hours yesterday afternoon after an industrial backhoe working on St. Paul's lot tore up a 400-line phone cable...
...Harvard almost makes it close late in the first half, but Myers' fumble near the goal line ends any thoughts for a Harvard comeback...
Thousands of companies have learned that if their products are second-rate, customers will take their business elsewhere. -- Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures of cocaine in recent months have done almost nothing to boost the price of the drug. -- Japan's Mitsubishi Estate picks up a piece of Americana with a major investment in Rockefeller Center. -- Ford buys a sporty number: Jaguar...
...almost 50 years, the Soviets have blamed the Germans for the Katyn massacre, despite evidence pointing unmistakably to Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. Last week a prominent American visitor rendered his own verdict. At the foot of the monument, he placed a bouquet of red roses bearing a handwritten message penned in both Polish and English: "For the victims of Stalin and the NKVD. Zbigniew Brzezinski...