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Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences John B. Fox Jr. '59 dug out an old project that had accumulated his inattention through the school year--he found a place for a homeless bust...
...York City police, acting on a tip, are making a bust in the heist of more than $1 million in jewels from world-famous Tiffany's last Sunday, police sources confirmed to TIME New York correspondent Massimo Calabresi. They expect to recover some or all of the precious purloined stones. Investigators were acting on search warrants for an undisclosed location this afternoon, and expected to arrest one or more suspects tonight. The tipster's motive for coming forward: a $50,000 reward from Tiffany's and its insurers for information on the theft...
...original intent, the AT&T bust-up opened up competition in long- distance service and gave each of the seven new Baby Bells control of the local market in its part of the country. But the ultimate significance of the breakup, as has become clear, is that it made inevitable the war of all- . against-all that today rages among telephone, cable and long-distance companies for the nation's computers, phones and television screens...
There was jubilation in conservation circles last month when a newly formed U.S. Park Service antipoaching unit pulled off a classic sting operation, arresting 27 citizens from Texas to Florida in the biggest poaching bust in Park Service history. The feds posed as amateur herpetologists and would-be buyers; the crime ring's alleged kingpin, who regularly carried a semiautomatic pistol, gave up without a fight. The Park Service carried out the operation for only...
Shortly after the snake bust, Bill Tanner, the Park Service group's leader, got an ominous phone message at his Santa Fe headquarters. The caller wanted to assure him that if he sent another agent into the area, "you're gonna find him floating in the river." Tanner smiles. "That only means you're getting to these guys," he says. "You're doing your job." For poacher-hunting agents like Tanner, the big game is thick on the landscape...