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Once again San Francisco Examiner Editor Randolph Hearst found himself printing news about one of his own daughters. And again the news was bad. While entering the U.S. from Canada, Anne Hearst, 19, younger sister of Fugitive Patty Hearst, was stopped by customs officials in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and her car and its occupants searched. Agents found a plastic bag containing a dozen amphetamine tablets stuffed in the sock of Anne's driving companion, Donald Moffett, 21, and promptly arrested the pair for possession of dangerous drugs. U.S. federal agents rushed to the scene, hoping Anne could provide information...
Syria's President Hafez Assad and Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh met briefly in the Lebanese town of Chtoura, a honeymoon resort that is the local equivalent of Niagara Falls. The setting was significant: though their discussions concerned the situation with Israel, the meeting was the first formal summit between leaders of the two often contentious neighbors since 1947. Franjieh reportedly refused to allow Syrian troops inside his country short of an all-out Israeli assault, and agreed only to "military coordination" with Damascus. Even Israeli diplomats decided that the meeting had temporarily lessened tension along the northern...
Kyle Patterson grew up on a Tuscarora Indian reservation near Niagara Falls, N.Y. But she has also been an exchange student in Brazil, has gone on a cross-country trip with her mother and her brother, and has lived in Germany with her parents...
...place that inspires people. It inspired poets Allan Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, it inspired Angelo Bresci, the anarchist who killed King Humbert I of Italy before World War I, and to the city's lasting pride, it inspired "Leaping" Sam Patch, the only man to leap Niagara Falls without a protective device...
...Paris' low, intimate skyline, and the cars brought on a host of modern urban ills: daily bumper-to-bumper traffic jams; air pollution that sickened 2,000 trees shading the boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse to reside...