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...captain and navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based on the peninsula. Since the Soviets not only had the two key crewman but also the Korean airliner and its "black box" of tapes that record a plane's functioning throughout a flight, it might be some...
...ethnic group. (Second largest are the whites, with 100,000, followed by the Hereros with about 60,000.) Headed by bearded Militant Sam Nujoma, SWAPO has an estimated 4,000 guerrillas, most of them based in southern Angola, who have been carrying out an intermittent campaign of terror in northern Namibia since 1966. In consequence, South Africa, which has administered the former German territory under a League of Nations mandate since 1920, is obliged to keep 15,000 soldiers in Namibia and spend $1.5 million a day to fight the guerrillas...
...town of Rutherford's size could normally expect .58 cases of leukemia in the 5-to-19-year-old age group during this period. Rutherford had six cases in this category, five of them among children in the same small school district. Said Dr. Arnold Rubin of the northern New Jersey chapter of the Leukemia Society of America: "It's unlikely that they have occurred purely by accident." Concerned Rutherford residents had their own ideas about the cause. Mrs. Vivian Cleffi, whose nine-year-old son James died of leukemia in 1976, held "Big Business" responsible. Some people...
Even before he made his '78 northern debut in yesterday afternoon's Greater Boston League tilt against the Northeastern Huskies, Harvard's junior hurler Tim Clifford knew how to keep things in check. Clifford works as a security guard at the Radcliffe Quad, so it was really no surprise that when he took the mound, the Huskies acted as if their bats had been locked in the dugout...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior righthander Timmy Clifford gets his first Northern start and hopefully the squad's first GBL win against Northeastern today at Soldiers Field...