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Last year, the manager of Northeast Investors Trust, who continues to serve as an alumni on this year's Committee, was one of the ACSR's most conservative members. This year, President Bok had four appointments to make, not counting the students representatives. Of the four, President Bok appointed three men with financial backgrounds. His sole alumni selection is another financial manager, the vice-president for investments of the Boston-based investment counseling firm, Scudder, Stevens & Clark. Two of the three faculty appointees are financial specialists...
...they uncovered a paltry 380 kilos of cocaine. Clamping down on coca cultivation has been even harder in Peru. Four years ago, Washington launched what was regarded as a well-planned $26 million program centered on the coca-growing upper Huallaga Valley, a steep-sloped area some 200 miles northeast of Lima, the capital. The first part of the program was an $18 million, five-year project by the Agency for International Development to help the Peruvians build roads, bridges and water systems. The scheme was also designed to reduce coca production and encourage instead the cultivation of coffee, bananas...
...Spectre gunship was in night combat over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in December 1972, when ground fire punctured its fuel line. The plane was limping back to base in Thailand when it exploded and plunged into the jungle about 25 miles northeast of Pakse, Laos. Two crewmen parachuted to safety, and a rescue helicopter recovered the partial remains of a third airman. That left 13 Americans on the plane presumed dead but designated as missing in action, a classification that encompasses 2,483 other Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia...
...argues that Amtrak is a prime candidate for the ax because it carries only 2% of long-haul passenger traffic (vs. 86% for airlines and 12% for buses). Moreover, Dole maintains, the railroad is a gravy train for middle- and upper-income passengers. A survey of riders in the Northeast showed that 55% had incomes of $30,000 or more...
...believes that the most vital sections of the rail line would survive. Says Dole: "There may be a considerable amount of interest on the part of local and state authorities to pick up the service." The most likely region to keep its trains rolling would be the 455-mile Northeast corridor between Boston and Washington, where 120-m.p.h. Metroliners and other trains carry more than half of all Amtrak riders...