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...contamination hazard forces Cambridge to take water from the Quabbin reservoir, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will be "hard-pressed" to supply water to all its customers, said M. Ilyas Bhatti, MDC's director of watershed management. Extremely low levels of rainfall this winter have already prompted state officials to declare a "water emergency" for Boston and 43 other communities served by the Quabbin...
...Quabbin system continues to be stressed further because of the lack of precipitation, the MDC would find it very difficult to provide water to the partially supplied communities to bail them out in case of an emergency," said Bhatti. Most of greater Boston draws on the Quabbin and Wachusett, MDC's reservoirs...
...Bhatti said the MDC supports Cohen's original bill, adding that Barrett's amendment would not be an "appropriate" solution to the problem because it would make the MDC responsible for monitoring Cambridge water...
...internal free-for-all that followed Pakistan's birth as a nation, Kassim and Abdullah Bhatti, sons of two fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste...
When the army took over power in Pakistan last October, one of its first acts was to arrest the Bhatti boys. In underwater caves near Karachi, navy frogmen found an incredible two tons of Bhatti gold. Abdullah, closemouthed on the stand but believed to be the brains of the operation, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Then Playboy Kassim went on trial-and talked...