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There is another product in high demand but short supply on the Soviet side these days, thanks to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign. As a result, Chinese traders make room in their sample cases for bottles of mao-tai, a fiery 120-proof sorghum liquor -- not to sell but to lubricate negotiations with their Siberian hosts. Says Dimitri Krolov, a Soviet regional trade official who joined the train in Zabaikalsk: "Business is booming. We manufacture what they want, they grow what we want...
...into their admissions policies. Boston's 450-member St. Botolph Club recently admitted Katherine Fanning, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and not a moment too soon. Just a day after last week's ruling, Boston officials warned three other clubs that they face the loss of food and liquor licenses if their membership policies are unchanged by the end of July...
...serving alcohol to minors at an initiation bacchanal last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...
...legal drinking age of 21, schools are faced with the task of trying to enforce selective prohibition. At the University of California, Berkeley, drinking has been banned from public areas of dormitories and at all fraternity and sorority rushes. Last April the University of Oregon forbade the purchase of liquor by the school's 16 fraternities. In New Brunswick, N.J., last month Rutgers University students were indicted for aggravated hazing following the drink-related death in February of an 18-year-old Lambda Chi Alpha pledge. The university has since suspended the fraternity for at least five years...
...VARSITY Liquor is just one of many casualties of the intense development currently occuring in the Square. Harvard Square has always been a dynamic, changing place, but over the last few years the pace has risen dramatically. Visitors who have not been back for a few years are amazed at the different atmosphere Gone are many of the book stores and cheap coffee shops that used to mark the neighborhood. Family-owned businesses have given way to a flood of banks and giant chain stores like Urban Outfitters, Bennetton...