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...immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries-the U.S., Canada and Australia -global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there...
...Irish-dominated fire department to minority hiring and promotion; and the indictment of the mayor's former director of public relations, Earl Bush, on charges of mail fraud in connection with his secret ownership of a company that operated the display advertising concession at city-owned O'Hare Airport...
...Singer-Songwriter Martin Mull is the only newcomer who is literally a rock comic, laying his words on music. His hit record is in fact an instrumental called Dueling Tubas. His other folk-rock ditties include Ventriloquist Love ("Whenever I kiss you, your lips never move") and the ultimate Hare Krishna lover's gambit: "I made love to you in a former life...
...apocalypse was coming." The Arboretum, once the place where "you could kick a bush and it would kick back was loud with demonstrations; there was rioting when The Mothers of Invention opened a concert yelling "Up against the wall, motherfuckers"; Tom Hayden was running the Michigan Daily, Hare Krishna and Seventh Day Adventist freaks panhandled in the streets and fought with each other for converts, storefronts were going psychedelic and the graffiti bespoke anarchy...
Trouble is stirring in Nirvana. A.C. Bhakivedanta, Swami of the Hare Krishna movement, at a news conference in Hong Kong last week denounced a rival guru: self-styled divinity Maharaj Ji, 16, now counseling his disciples in California. The ascetic swami, whose followers constitute a kind of saffron-robed Hindu version of the Salvation Army, began by saying, "You've got to decide whether he is God, or a dog." Noting the young leader's luxurious life style, the swami declared rather ominously, "He is cheating people, but he will be cheated in a bigger way. When...