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...without telling anyone, not even the members of his prayer group, former Presidential Aide Charles Colson phoned Richard Lee Bast, 41, who is regarded as Washington's best and toughest private detective. Colson wanted to talk to Bast about a very sensitive matter. Three days later they huddled for two hours in Bast's house in McLean, Va.; they met there once again on May 31. Last week Bast, who made extensive notes of both conversations, revealed his version of what Chuck Colson said. Even in the Watergate environment, where the unbelievable often comes true, Colson...
Throughout the northeastern U.S., June's heavy rains greened the countryside in splendid style, creating luscious lawns, luxuriant sprays of roses -and a mosquito crop that is big, noisy and vicious enough to turn the average picnic into a Schuhplattler exhibition. Says Dr. Thomas Bast, associate medical entomologist of the New York state health department: "This year's overall count is at least 200% higher than any other over the past six years. Some traps that usually catch about 25 mosquitoes a night now catch anywhere from...
...Bast places much of the blame on the deluges of Hurricane Agnes: "Eggs that were deposited over the last several years hatched in the high water and high tides." During July, New York state officials began an intensive spraying campaign against both larvae and adult mosquitoes-which can spread encephalitis and other diseases-but it is too late to eliminate the insect hordes. Says Massachusetts Agriculture Official Charles Cannon: "We used to control mosquitoes with massive, year-round larvacide projects. In the summer we sprayed, and in the winter we put down a powder pesticide on ice and snow, which...
Apart from insecticides, little can be done to control the pests except to drain the small pools of stagnant water that serve as mosquito hatcheries, and mosquitoes can discover pools faster than men can drain them. "As for next year," says New York's Bast, "if we have a mild winter, we'll have an even worse mosquito problem in the spring...
Bruce LoPucki, at number one, was dealt the most shocking setback, a four and two loss to Mike Corbett. LoPucki, a former USGA Junior semifinalist, had been shooting in the middle 70's most of the season and had only dropped one other match - to Navy, one of the bast in the East...