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Earlier in the month, Bok had to weave his way back through an all-night party, "The Encampment for Divestiture," that bivouacked in front of Massachusetts Hall last month--complete with cases of Budweiser and Hong Kong take-out. Confronted by a mob that demanded he speak up, Bok suggested that the saner locale of his office might be a better environment to discuss Harvard's $440 million of investments in companies that have some amount of operations in South Africa. Divestitures nailed him for trying to avoid the issue altogether...
...downtown Peking's Tiananmen Square, the ritualistic rhythms clicked into high gear. A mob of choreographed schoolchildren waved enormous paper flowers toward the Reagans and chanted, in Chinese, "Welcome, welcome-warm welcome!" Across the square, crack drill squads of army, navy and air force troops stood at attention, bayonets fixed, and a People's Liberation Army unit fired off a 21-gun artillery salute. But the most intriguing welcoming committee had been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young...
...page affidavit, Badalamenti and his deputies in Sicily purchased opium from Pakistan and Afghanistan, oversaw its production into heroin, then exported it to the U.S. There Bonanno-family members, including Alfano and his fellow restaurateurs in the Midwest, acted as middlemen. Finally, the money was collected by the Catalano Mob faction and laundered through prestigious New York City brokerage houses...
...previous experience with nylons, however, Broadway Joe found dressing like a broad a definite drag. "I tore the first three pair of fishnet stockings I put on," said Namath. He plays Josephine, the saxophone player who poses as a woman in an all-girl band to avoid the Mob and falls in love with Sugar Kane, an all-woman girl played on film by Marilyn Monroe. The show has been doing well, but Namath will pass on a longer run. Come the end of this month, he pledges, "it will be out of pantyhose, into football socks." Wasting no time...
...February Hindus in Haryana staged then-most violent assaults yet. A mob of 5,000 quickly grew to 8,000, attacking however many Sikhs they could find. In one instance half a dozen Sikh prisoners were held immobile and their beards and hair shorn as Hindus hooted and yelled. "There goes your hair power," cried out one Hindu demonstration leader, referring to the Sikh belief that spiritual power derives from long hair. Their heads shaved to the scalp, faces no longer covered with luxuriant beards, Sikhs lay in the street, blasphemed, humiliated and scorned. Last week, in an atmosphere...