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...capture of the shrimp boat and its Spanish-speaking crew this month was the largest single drug seizure ever made in New England, but it was only the latest sign that drug smuggling along the region's seacoast has swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass...
Thus began an improbable three-day conflict between youthful extremists who regard themselves as Marx's true heirs and Europe's largest and most innovative Communist Party. The ultras had come to Bologna from all over Italy for a weekend convention held to protest Communist "repression." They claim that the Communist Party, in its eagerness to share power with the Christian Democrats, has become a pillar of the Establishment and hates them for saying...
...largest losses Harvard could take in the near future, is a parcel of land near Sacramento Field that the city is presently trying take by its right of eminent domain--if it can raise the money. Although no definite plans for housing construction have been proposed by the University, Russell E. Hill, director of real estate, says the outcome of the city's proposal to take back the land could have a major effect on Harvard's plans to build graduate student housing there...
...OTHER HAND. with all the clamoring from those damn-screaming-Naderites-or-worse-in-what-remains-of-the-New-Left about the "hazardous poisons" in our food, the price of additive futures plummeted and the Food Servicers made a monumental decision, followed by what was apparently the largest over-the-counter Sodium Nitrite deal in the history of organized chemicals. After all, a federal judge had given the Concorde the go-ahead to land in New York City, we could put a man on the moon, so why the phosphoric acid couldn't the University's team of Bocuse-trained...
...Percy Qoboza, current editor of the largest black South African newspaper, became the first black South African granted a passport in order to participate in the Nieman Program...