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Some 900 male undergraduates yesterday received false draft notices from members of the Committee on Central America (COCA), a 20-member student organization, group leaders and notice recipients said...

Author: By Steven N. Kalkanis, | Title: COCA Mails Fake Draft Notices | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

Even when Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Invasion of The Wild Things | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...scoreboard; Harvard was down by two touchdowns with less than two minutes to go. Hopes of a Harvard victory over Holy Cross had been dashed. As the clouds thickened over the Stadium, people began to file out. I took one last big gulp from my cup of Coca-Cola and prepared to leave. But as I stood up, something made me look down toward the sideline again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Art of `Rah, rah, rah' | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

Peru has an added worry because of support the Shining Path has among the peasants who grow coca. The rebels protect the peasants against a U.S.-financed coca eradication program, in return collecting a "tax" of 10 to 15 percent of their earnings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andean Leaders Discuss Drug War Issue | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...have a double problem in the Huallaga Valley--coca cultivation and subversion," Garcia said. "Unless coca substitution is gradual, all we will acheive is to make poor peasants even poorer and push them into the arms of the subversive movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andean Leaders Discuss Drug War Issue | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

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