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...They are handled by a small platoon of hirelings: "plant men" who package the stuff, "chemists" who turn morphine base into pure heroin for $400 a kilo, and "mules" who will carry it to its destination for $1,000 plus plane fare. The narcotics trade has been a boon to Paraguay's so-called "Mau Mau" pilots. The pilots fly contraband drugs north to the U.S. from Buenos Aires or from any of 500 tiny airstrips that dot Paraguay. The pilots joke that they have a "Cessna 500" (which can carry 500 Ibs. of cocaine) or a "Cessna...
Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is okay, its chief attraction being its many foreign periodicals. But for foreign language scholars, Schoenhof's (1280 Mass Ave) is the greatest boon. The store specializes in books of any language, from Amharic to Welsh. Anything you want that they don't have in stock, they will...
...ties are blossoming. Hair to the collar and sideburns to the bottom of the ear are now permitted. Gray has established a special division to recruit more black, Spanish-speaking and other minority-group agents. The new division will also hear agents' grievances, which should be a boon to bureau morale, and will help in the agency's pioneering recruitment of women agents...
...nearly a year-little more than $100 million according to estimates by Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. That figure was way down from $1.3 billion in March and $1.6 billion in February, let alone the $8.8 billion payments gap last August. The biggest boon last month was that more U.S. investment funds stayed home instead of seeking a higher return abroad. Some European interest rates have fallen lately. Meanwhile, short-term rates in the U.S. have risen as a result of growing loan demand and a somewhat tighter Federal Reserve monetary policy. Since February...
...Boon to Hospitals. Still, the unfairness of the present court-clogging insurance system is so glaring that almost any form of no-fault seems an improvement. Even if insurance premiums remain the same, at least the vast majority of auto-accident victims would be assured of prompt, equitable settlements. Senator Warren Magnuson, one of the sponsors of the national no-fault plan, foresees another benefit. At present, he points out, hospitals have no assurance that accident victims will ever be able to collect enough money to pay for emergency treatment, but under no-fault insurance companies would settle such bills...