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...week advertised for "mercenaries, activities in Africa ... military background a must." The ad was placed by David Bufkin, 38, a crop duster and former G.I. who said he had been hired by "Portuguese interests" to recruit 300 Americans for UNITA and the F.N.L.A. ($1,200 a month for a one-year stint...
More than 230 Harvard students have taken leaves in 1975--double the number that left the school in one-year periods during the 1960s and far more than University officials expected earlier this year...
...scramble to success, Reeves has had to spread himself thin-too thin, according to Harper's editors, who did not renew his one-year arrangement with the magazine in 1972. But Reeves has recently been trying to reduce his commitments. Last May he left the TV job with relief ("I felt like Barbara Walters in drag"), and plans to write only one more book about politics; it will be on the 1976 campaign. "After that, maybe I'll get a cabin and write fiction," Reeves says. "I love politics. It's more interesting than the National Football...
...mayor's austerity plans outraged city union leaders. They had agreed to a partial one-year wage freeze only after Beame agreed last summer not to lay off any more workers except in an extreme emergency. The control board seemed to be forcing him to defer wage increases in the city's labor contracts for another two years. Further, union leaders were upset by the board's rejection of the agreement that ended a five-day teachers' strike last month; the board found the settlement too expensive...
Buckley said his bill would allow a six-month period during which handgun owners could turn in their guns and be reimbursed for them. People found possessing handguns after that period would receive a mandatory one-year jail sentence...