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...charges against him. So the three Canadians were flown to Vermont and led in manacles through the front door of the library-in the U.S.-while the witness came in through the fire escape on the Canadian side. The hearing took place back and forth across the thick black line marking the location of the border across the floor of the library...
...troublesome border was drawn in 1774 when British authorities ordered a surveyor to set the line between the colonies of Canada and Vermont at the 45th parallel, the exact midline between the equator and the North Pole. Local historians have cited records of liquor rations brought along on the trip. And these explain why, they say, when the survey was through, the border was set more than a quarter of a mile too far north. But for that British rum, Derby Line would have been firmly in Canada for the past 205 years, and the border in an unsettled...
Baker articulated the dark thoughts that crossed the mind of many a citizen stuck in a gas line. If the big oil companies were gouging the American people, Baker declared, they risked nationalization. Baker was wildly against even the thought of such a measure, but as a professional pol he sensed an ugly mood. His warning nearly cracked the picture windows in Houston's Petroleum Club. Baker's mail showed...
...depressed condition of the country's economy is in part a result of President Kenneth Kaunda's adherence to principles: Zambia is a front-line state in the southern Africa conflict. But the embarrassing truth is that white-ruled South Africa is now Zambia's main lifeline to the world. The red carpet used to greet vips at Lusaka International Airport was made in the hated land of apartheid; many of the delicacies served at the Commonwealth banquets also came from there. For Zambia, the Tazara Railway, built by the Chinese to open up a land link...
DIED. William S. Todman, 62, pioneering radio and TV producer who, with his partner Mark Goodson, pioneered the game show, creating TV's current smash hit Family Feud and What's My Line?, which ran for 17½ years; following heart surgery; in New York City. In addition to employing 90 television researchers in the search for convincing impostors for To Tell the Truth and offbeat confessors for I've Got a Secret, the "Gold Dust Twins" built a communications empire that once included 17 newspapers...