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Parallels between troubled contemporary American society and the decline of ancient Rome have little historical basis, a Harvard classics professor said last night at the Cambridge Forum...
Glen W. Bowersock, professor of Greek and Latin, discussed the question, "Should we view the fall of Rome as a paradigm for our own time?" with Herbert Bloch, professor of Latin Language and Literature, at the session sponsored by the United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Rome's Fiumicino Airport, Italian plainclothesmen arrest two Orientals on a flight from Bangkok, whose suitcases yield 44 lbs. of lumpy gray-brown No. 3 heroin, hidden in carvings of elephants, pagodas and lotus leaves...
Dodging Amsterdam's closely watched Schiphol Airport, couriers detour to Zurich, Frankfurt, Rome and other cities and then carry the dope to Holland overland. Penny-wise smugglers have even used Aeroflot's discount flights across Asia, though Soviet police crackdowns in Moscow are making that route more dangerous. Tactics change daily. "You know if we see a Chinese get off a flight from Bangkok, we're going to nail him," says one Paris-based U.S. narc. To avoid that, the triads are recruiting middle-class Caucasians as "mules" for $1,000 a trip plus plane fare...
Caste System. In Plagues and Peoples McNeill, who won the 1964 National Book Award for The Rise of the West, offers a provocative medical man's view of why the world took some of the turns it did. Most writers figure that Rome succumbed to outer Goths and inner decadence. McNeill maintains that a series of epidemics-measles, smallpox, plague-so depleted the empire's population that by the middle of the 3rd century A.D. it was no longer able to resist the barbarians. Disease, rather than religion, also lay at the roots of India's caste...