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...taxes, inflation (current annual rate: 21%), and the political gains of the Communist Party. As many as 254 Swiss banks or branches located in Ticino compete fiercely for these loose lire. Some of the banks are suspected of collaborating in the smuggling, either by providing transport or by bribing low-level diplomatic officials to make currency runs in their cars, which are exempt from border inspections...
...with even a pair of those behemoths isn't very encouraging. And around the Ivy League, in many sports, the story is the same: Blue-chip athletes are being vigorously courted, and often successfully wooed, by Harvard's athletic rivals. Yet Harvard continues to stand by its policy of low-level recruiting, with results that have been, at least so far, fairly good...
...sources like wind and solar; a technology that even government sources admit is capable of accidents killing up to 45,000 people--these are our concerns. These are the issues that we feel are worth the strongest possible opposition, that are worth imprisonment. Until the threats of meltdown disasters, low-level radiation, perpetual waste storage, and nuclear terrorism are rid from our lives, none of us is safe. And we will not be rid of them until nuclear plants like Seabrook are defeated throughout the country, and existing plants are shut down...
...country's nine regions), "le Guide," as Mobutu likes to call himself, has brought Zaire to the verge of economic collapse. Nonetheless, with so much Western aid on the way, there seems a fair chance that the "invasion" of Shaba may eventually be reduced to the kind of low-level guerrilla warfare that has smoldered on, in parts of southern and eastern Zaire, for much of the past 17 years...
Over the past two years, the U.S. lodged several low-level protests. The West Germans never took them very seriously. Now, however, Carter has made the danger of nuclear proliferation a central pillar of his foreign policy. Bonn is outraged that Washington is publicly trying to undercut the agreement, and is vowing to proceed anyway...