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...President ran into his largest protest demonstration since taking office as he arrived at Los Angeles' Century Plaza hotel to address a $1,000-a-ticket dinner dance. Some 2,500 Imperial Valley farmers paraded with tractors, pickup trucks and buses, waving signs pleading for "fairness to farmers." They wanted presidential support against a court action that enforced a long-ignored 160-acre limitation on farms watered by federal irrigation projects. A thousand more demonstrators protested other issues, including the neutron bomb, inadequate welfare programs and high unemployment. Carter used his speech to defend his record, including his controversial...
...Attorney General Bellotti with their own evidence that landlords and others were deliberately torching buildings in their community. Armed with these documented complaints, Bellotti ordered the state's criminal bureau to begin the probe that led to last week's indictments against what officials charge is the largest known arson ring in the U.S. One lesson of the Boston arrests is that in order to fight back against organized arson, the victims themselves may have to get organized and join forces with beleaguered -and all too often insufficiently interested-city officials...
President Bok this week added his voice to the chorus of protests against the South African government's imprisonment of Percy P. Qoboza, a former Nieman Fellow and editor of South Africa's largest black newspaper, but came up short of condemning all of the Pretoria government's policies...
...intensity with which players regard their team varies from House to House. Winthrop, which fields by far the largest squad (37 players compared to Mather's 17) had a training meal before yesterday's game with Kirkland, in keeping with the spirited attitude that has brought the Strauss Cup (symbolic of the overall intramural champ) to their halls for two consecutive years...
...leader of France's largest communist union said yesterday he expects the rift between the French Communist and Socialist parties to disappear before France's general election in March...