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Freshman flash Anne Sullivan led a pack of Radcliffe harriers to a 17-44 cross-country victory in her home state of Rhode Island yesterday...
...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, a ton off at the Carolinas, then a ton in Rhode Island and in Maine." Most of the smugglers were young adventurers (including some from as far away as Australia) with no serious criminal backgrounds, and many headed for the state of Maine whose 3,000 miles of seacoast and 1,400 islands make it a smuggler's paradise...
...feds now believe that organized drug wholesalers and international syndicates are operating in New England. In August a series of drug raids in Rhode Island uncovered a drug ring using 20 trucks, six airplanes and four ocean-going vessels...
...hopelessness springs eternal on Rhode Island Sound. After three crushing defeats, Australia's loyal underdoggers were busy recalling all the old familiar whiny excuses, among them the "She can only move in light air" ploy. Shamelessly followed this summer by its corollary: "She can only move in heavy air." As the two boats-Australia 44 sec. back-beat up toward the spectator fleet, now placed upwind of the first mark, the word goes round. "Forty-four seconds behind! That's her best first leg ever...
Anne Sullivan, Rhode Island's greatest contribution since the Providence statehouse (the world's third largest unsupported marble dome), struck a blow for freshmen everywhere yesterday by running to a course-record-breaking first place finish in yesterday's Radcliffe cross-country meet against UMass and Brandeis. UMass pulled through, however, and won the meet...