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...Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, to heroin smuggling in the U.S. Called at the insistence of Kansas Republican Robert Dole and other treaty opponents, the two-day session attracted as many as 70 Senators, practically a mob in Capitol Hill terms. But when the doors reopened at midweek, after 14 hours of testimony and discussion, the great drug drama turned out to be something of a bust...
...never rejoined the tour. Randy Daniels of CBS-TV staged a loud argument with an official and the guards in the hotel lobby, while his film crew slipped out the back way to shoot pictures of their own choice. Others left the hotel before the guards were awake. By midweek about half of the Western reporters had disengaged themselves from the official program and were scurrying around interviewing or taking pictures of bodies sprawled on the sidewalks-victims of the regime's "red terror" campaign of nightly assassination of Ethiopians whom it deems counterrevolutionaries...
Cathy Lowry spearheaded the Crimson women leading them back from a 1-3 opening round by capturing all four of her bouts, and allowing only eight touches against herself in the process. Lowry seemed to have regained her confidence after a tentative midweek performance against MIT, and fenced aggressively using a combination of her strength and agility to ease past her opponents...
South of the Mason-Dixon line, the onslaught of winter was no less vicious. A sleet storm came roaring out of Texas at midweek. In such cities as Birmingham and Memphis, the storm disrupted traffic and closed down schools and businesses. In Atlanta, where there are still fresh memories of a 1973 ice storm that downed trees and knocked out power lines for a week, the ominous reports emerging from Alabama and Tennessee sent downtown workers hurrying home early...
...Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had met secretly in Paris with European monetary officials, currency traders assumed that a dollar-propping agreement would be announced at last week's monthly meeting of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland. None was forth coming, and the selloff of dollars started anew. By midweek the herd instinct had taken hold, and in Switzerland the dollar lost 1.5% in value in a single day, one of its largest one-day drops. That will make Swiss vacations more expensive for American tourists - if they can find anyone to exchange dollars for them...