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...some within the CCA have said in recent weeks that controversial efforts by David Sullivan to clamp down on condominium conversions in the city could anger some traditional CCA voters. "I may lose some support, but I think I'll pick some up too." Sullivan said, adding that his fundraising efforts are ahead of his 1979 pace, when he was one of the biggest spenders in the campaign...
Hernan Siles Zuazo, who won the election in June of last year, had promised to clamp down on the cocaine traders. The statement may have lacked conviction, but the military leaders were not willing to risk their 800 million per year business to find out. The subsequent coup brought to power a cocaine mafia that includes even the president Luis Garcia Meza. Informants within Bolivia report that cocaine production now has become centralized, efficient and much more tightly controlled. The losers are Indian peasants, who no longer can afford to chew coca because its price has risen astronomically. With...
Although Archie C. Epps III, dean of students and Harvard's liasion to the Pudding, has given the club more time to pay off the approximately $20,000 it owes the University, other creditors have begun to clamp down...
Even if Hawaii can clamp down on crime, the islands will remain helplessly vulnerable to the soaring cost of jet fuel, which is the main cause of the rising air fares. Local officials fear that Hawaii may become a resort only for the very wealthy. Says Paul DeDomenico, president of Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co.: "Some people say that tourism in Hawaii depends on the rich. That's wrong. It depends on the middle class...
...watchers believe that the central bank plans to work hard at least through Jan. 20 to rein in the money supply, whose growth is still exceeding Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's targets. Says Investment Analyst Julian Snyder: "For Volcker, the next three months provide a great opportunity to clamp on the monetary brakes with minimum political interference. He can try to wring out in December what could not be wrung...