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...Harvard participants in the 20-mile walk, sponsored by the non-profit group Project Bread, gathered more than $50,000 in pledges, said Ralph S. Guernsey, a fifth-year Divinity School student who coordinated Harvard participation...
Canadian officials seem overwhelmed by the illegal flood along the 3,987- | mile border. One reason is that thousands of vehicles pass border crossings daily, too many to check carefully. Another: the untold number of back roads and bays linking the two countries. Sighs Michael Crichton, a regional intelligence official for Canada Customs: "The odds are all on the smugglers' side...
...missiles that for the most part are aimed at only one NATO country: West Germany. Thus the Germans fear that they will become more than ever the special, or even sole, Soviet target. West Germans suggest two ideas: 1) demand that the Soviets destroy ^ many of their under-300-mile-range missiles as well as longer-range types; 2) condition a missile deal on a Soviet commitment to reduce conventional forces in Europe. Says Volker Ruhe, a Bundestag expert on defense policy and adviser to Kohl: "Things are too much concentrated on solely nuclear issues." Tying missile negotiations to conventional...
Shortly after the explosion, mobs of Sinhalese civilians stoned Tamil-owned shops about a half-mile from the bus terminal. Police dispersed the crowd...
...channel that arched south of Mexicali, Mexico, then back north into California. But it has made up for lost time. Says Gruenberg: "It's the most polluted water in California, and perhaps in the U.S." The Colorado connection has long since dried up, but a 75-mile river still flows, carrying its poisonous flotsam into California's bountiful Imperial Valley, past lettuce and cotton fields, and finally emptying into the Salton Sea, a popular fishing and swimming site near Palm Springs. Fishermen and residents alike have complained about pollution in the Salton Sea, and the U.S. Geological Survey stopped taking...