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DIED. Ervil LeBaron, 56, fanatical leader of the polygamous San Diego-based sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, who was believed responsible for the deaths of at least 13 people between 1972 and 1977; of as yet undetermined causes; in a state prison in Draper, Utah. LeBaron, who served twelve months in a Mexican jail in connection with the 1972 slaying of his brother Joel, was sentenced last year to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of the head of a rival polygamous sect in Utah. LeBaron was also convicted last year of plotting to kill another brother...
...characteristic of Saudis. Richard Debs, a managing director of New York's Morgan Stanley investment banking house, recalls the time that Quraishi invited him and his wife on an excursion to the hills north of the Saudi town of Medina, where they picnicked Bedouin-style on rice and lamb among the Nabataean ruins...
...violence continued, the mullahs had other problems on their hands. The economy is a disaster. Inflation is running at 60% for consumer goods. Lamb now costs four times what it did under the Shah; a cake of soap sells for $2. Nearly one-third of the nation's labor force of 12 million is unemployed. Some 1.5 million refugees from Afghanistan have crowded into the country, further straining the economy. More than a million educated Iranians have fled since the Islamic revolution. Though Iran's annual income from oil exports is about $11.5 billion, the war with Iraq...
...deadlock was immediately obvious when the 13 ministers sat down Sunday evening in a private hotel dining salon for a secret preconference dinner. While the delegates ate lobster mousse and lamb noisettes, Yamani bluntly laid out the Saudi terms. The stonewalling response by cartel hard-liners led Conference Chairman Subroto of Indonesia to confess later that little remained except to "get through two days of meetings...
...called M-44, involves a spring-loaded tube covered with bait and planted in the ground. When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth. In an attempt at aversion therapy, Government-funded scientists have even scattered chunks of lamb meat dosed with an emetic. Any coyote who samples the stuff quickly becomes ill. The object: to make coyotes feel that sheep are sickening. All these things have proved too inefficient or too costly to be much help. Is there, then, any safe, cheap and humane way of containing coyotes...