Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest issue, so he made it his campaign theme. He won by splitting blue-collar Democrats worried about their jobs from liberal intellectuals preoccupied with the environment. Says Stanford Sociologist Seymour Lipset: "This is the kind of thing they are doing very well-looking from place to place, from region to region to find out what the discontent...
...capture of the shrimp boat and its Spanish-speaking crew this month was the largest single drug seizure ever made in New England, but it was only the latest sign that drug smuggling along the region's seacoast has swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass...
Authorities say that smuggling in the New England region has been increasing in recent years as drug-runners started moving north to avoid the heat generated by U.S. agents along the nation's southern border. New England's 250 colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says Edward Cass, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Someone would buy a boat, pick up a crew at some marina, go down to Jamaica or Colombia and drop a ton of the grass off on the Florida coast...
...overcome this vulnerability, by helping it set up plants to extract oil from coal, and look for oil. Most important, U.S. firms have invested heavily in South African oil refineries--more than doubling their investments in recent years--giving South Africa a hold over other countries in the region, which depend on South Africa for refined...
...ugliest speculation about Mengele is that once again he may be involved in the destruction of a people-though on a much smaller scale. Despite Paraguayan denials, TIME's sources believe that he serves as an adviser to the Paraguayan police and frequently travels to the remote Chaco region where the Aché Indians are being hunted down or reduced to slave labor through techniques that are chillingly reminiscent of those of the German work camps. A high Paraguayan police official boasted to a visiting investigator that his government uses "German methods" in dealing with the Indians...