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Gold fever in the U.S. is so widespread that it is no longer accurate to speak of its victims as if they were right-wing zealots haunted by nightmares of starving marauders. A more typical buyer is New York Suburbanite Phillip Knapp, who is vice president of a paper firm. With a wife, three children and a six-figure income, Knapp seems every bit the successful American who ought to have confidence that the future will be as good to him as the past has been. But says he: "In 1975 I started to worry about where I could...
...Paradise Island. He liked to wear Cardin suits and Dior shirts. Acting under cover, he became the lover of the mistress of a French heroin ring boss, cracking a drug and counterfeit network extending from France to the U.S. and Canada. Working with New York City's Knapp Commission looking into police corruption, he helped convict an assistant district attorney of bribery. He was brought in from the cold in 1975 to become head of the DEA enforcement section in Mexico City, charged with investigating the flow of drugs from Latin America...
...crowd of approximately 80 people chanting "Re-open negotiations" and "We shall not be moved" demonstrated during David Knapp's inauguration yesterday as president of the University of Massachusetts...
Howard White, a spokesman for UMass president James E. Knapp, refused to comment on the effect further demonstrations would have on negotiations. "The administration has been acting in good faith since the beginning. A great many issues have been solved, but we are still deadlocked on a few," he said Friday...
...Knapp, a former Bullock fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, is a political scientist who became provost at Cornell in 1974. He has also served as dean of the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell and directed the Institute of College and University Administrators at the American Council on Education...