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...school teacher named A. Z. Phizo, who organized an independence movement back in 1947 and left for London in 1961. He now carries on his battle from Britain, representing the self-styled "Naga Federal Government" that claims to speak for the 16 Naga tribes in. the 6,236-sq.-mi. state...
...powerful optical telescopes. Now, scientists are employing electronic means to explore the mysteries of the earth's sister planet. Using radio beams, Radar Astronomers Richard M. Goldstein and Shalhav Zohar of Caltech's Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory reported last week that they have mapped 160,000 sq. mi. of Venus, an area about equal to the size of the entire U.S. Northeast...
...cope with all this, Los Angeles has the smallest force in the country, relative to population (an estimated 2,840,632) and area (463.6 sq. mi.). The city employs only 1.9 cops per 1,000 residents v. 2.8 in Chicago, 3.2 in New York. Yet man for man, in part because the force is so highly motorized, it is probably one of the most efficient. The L.A.P.D. has a higher percentage of civilians than any other big-city force (three civilians for every ten in uniform); they handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn...
Died. Albion Harman, 52, "King" of Lilliputian (1.6 sq. mi., pop. 48) Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel; of a heart attack; in Barnstaple, England. For 800 years, the monarchs of Lundy (the island was first given to a nobleman by King Stephen in the 12th century; more recently, whoever owned the land held the title) battled mainland policies, minted the puffin, worth 1.9?, which was outlawed in 1931 when it ran afoul of British currency laws. Harman, whose father bought the island in 1925 for $80,000, rebuffed the mother country's efforts to incorporate the taxfree, school...
...House Interior Committee, urged on by New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes, moved to make the Great Swamp area, where the field would be built, a wildlife preserve instead of an airport. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley is contemplating a plan to build a 12.6-sq.-mi. airport on landfill in Lake Michigan, and Cleveland's Mayor Carl B. Stokes has a similar plan under consideration for Lake Erie...