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...drugs in the U.S., cocaine is now the biggest producer of illicit in come. Some 40 metric tons of it will be shipped into the country this year. As coke experts like to point out, if all the international dealers who supply the drug to the U.S. market-not even including the retailers-were to form a single corporation, it would probably rank seventh on the FORTUNE 500 list, between Ford Motor Co. ($37 billion in revenue) and Gulf Oil Corp. ($26.5 billion). Last year street sales of cocaine, by far the most expensive drug on the market, reached...
...willing to sell its harvest surplus. Not so certain was whether Moscow was willing to buy, and, if so, how much. After a day and a half of bargaining in London last week, American and Soviet trade officials announced that the U.S.S.R. will be allowed to purchase 3 million metric tons of wheat and 3 million metric tons of corn above the 8 million tons it is allowed to acquire under the existing five-year agreement, which expires on Sept. 30. Both sides will meet again to discuss a new long-term pact; in the meantime, the Soviet Union will...
Last year, several meet records fell, not only in the running events where the debut of metric distance in 1979 opened the way for new marks, but also in the 35-lb, weight and in the high jump. Competition in the field events should be strong again this year, with Penn and Dartmouth highly favored...
...meter run will pit defending 1980 Heps champion Jeff Hill of Penn against Harvard's co-captain Mare Chapus, who holds the University record in the 440 yd. run as well as the metric facility secord. Hill's 48.79 is a Heptagonal record, but Chapus reached 48.5 seconds last December, setting a University record and should be tough to beat...
...factor may have been the recent conversion to metric distances, which automatically rendered all standing GBC records obsolete. Another was the British invasion of two world-class B.U. imports who combined to win six different events, often finishing one-two well out in front of the rest of the pack...