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...University's impending decision about Black Rock--where Con Ed plans to build a pumped storage power plant on New York's Hudson River--has taken on increasing importance in the light of recent events. Legal door after legal door has slammed shut on environmentalist efforts to block the project, and few remain to be tried. Strident action by the University at this time could make Harvard a decisive adversary to Con Ed's plans...
...environmental and donor responsibility issues are clear. It is equally clear that Con Ed will not give up without a fight, and the utility may be counting on the University's lack of stamina to ensure that no new legal battles rage...
NCLC guards had been searching everyone who entered the third floor room at PBH before the meeting began. "We expected De Mau Mau to come," Linda Bankes, a member of NCLA, said yesterday. Bankes said that the black group had violently disrupted their meetings before. She cited another con- frontation about four weeks ago at a public meeting at UMass at Boston...
Bobby's latest con has run its brief course. He automatically called for a rematch, insisting, "I feel I would do better next time." But his heart was hardly in it. Billie Jean's initial response: "Give me 24 hours and a beer to think it over...
...Onion Field is the anatomy of an infamous 1963 Los Angeles cop killing. The facts are arresting enough: Gregory Powell, an ex-con, and Jimmy Smith, a gun-shy black junkie looking for a fast buck and a quick escape from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair...