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...news conference, committee chair Rep. Julian Dixon (D-Calif.) emphasized that Wright is innocent until the charges are proven, and he underscored that proving them requires a much heavier weight of evidence than the step taken Monday, which is the panel's equivalent of an indictment...
Soon enough, though, signs of change emerge. Traffic is much heavier, and if Pepsi has not exactly replaced vodka as the national beverage, it is widely available. Cooperative restaurants enjoy a fairly brisk business, at least among those who can afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...
...simple self-defense, law enforcers are also turning to heavier and more sophisticated artillery, ratcheting up the arms race another notch. "The police are definitely outgunned in this country," asserts Dewey Stokes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. A cop armed with the six- shot .38-cal. service revolver that has been standard for decades has little chance in a shootout with a criminal wielding, say, a converted Colt ; AR-15 capable of firing 900 rounds a minute; if not hit in the first fusillade, the policeman is likely to be shot while reloading. Out of that fear...
...most disturbing news in the 679-page report was the assertion that smoking has exacted a heavier toll in death and disease than had previously been thought. Among the findings...
Dartmouth (4-3-1 overall) is one of the Cinderella teams in the Ivy League this year. After a few years of program building and heavier recruiting, the Big Green is beginning to blossom and is now a threat to teams of the caliber of the Crimson...