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...came at a bad time. The Bryant group had argued that many male homosexuals prey on the young-and indeed some of the California victims were teenagers. What was more, the press began rehashing the sex-thrill murders of 27 youths by three Texas homosexuals in 1973 -still the largest proved mass murder in America...
...that drug, NIDA estimates that some 36 million Americans have now tried pot. By far the largest concentration of users is in the 18-to-25 age bracket; 53% of those surveyed said they had smoked marijuana at least once. Says NIDA: "Despite significant attempts to discourage marijuana use, cannabis is more than a fad and may well prove to be an enduring cultural pattern in the U.S." Other than suggesting that smoking pot might cause lung damage. NIDA ducks the issue of whether the drug poses a serious, long-term health hazard, explaining that the question requires further study...
Often a company looking for a merger is in some sort of trouble, but both Beech and General Dynamics are in strong shape. With military sales accounting for 55% of General Dynamics' total revenues ($2.5 billion last year), the firm is the nation's largest defense contractor. With nearly a decade of squabbles with the Pentagon regarding cost overruns on the F-111 fighter now behind it, General Dynamics' current multi-billion-dollar contract to produce 500 hot, single-engine F-16 interceptors for four NATO countries and the U.S. promises to keep earning income...
...Profit Records. A Beech deal would open up a new field for General Dynamics' aerospace expertise. At Beech, which is the nation's second largest maker of light aircraft (after Cessna), the big moneymaker has been the twin-engine turboprop King Air executive craft; it is popular with corporate customers because, although slower than a jet, it is more fuel-efficient and cheaper to buy (price: $600,000 to $1.6 million, depending on equipment, v. up to $3 million for some jets). Until now, Beech has shied away from entering the executive-jet business. But some industry experts...
...country's largest party, the Social Democrats, has promised to draft an "initiative" on banking control to be placed before Swiss voters within three years. Among the possible proposals: putting government representatives on bank boards of directors and making tax evasion a criminal offense, which would remove a big attraction for tax cheaters. There is no guarantee that the Social Democrats' ideas will become law, but the debate means that the bankers -and their customers around the world -will be able to take far less for granted in Switzerland than ever before...