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...three county deputies. They had been arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession at the annual "Juneteenth" public festival (commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas first heard they had been freed). While the officers were ferrying the youths across Lake Mexia, the small boat capsized 80 feet from shore. The deputies swam to safety, which was impossible for their handcuffed captives. The Dallas Medical Examiner found that none of the suspects had any traces of marijuana in their bodies. The deputies were acquitted of negligent homicide...
...Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, 53, won both Hugo and Nebula prizes, sci-fi's Pulitzers. Le Guin also won the National Book Award for her children's novel The Farthest Shore in 1972. Her 22 books, most of which are science fiction, have en livened the hardware-oriented genre with emotional immediacy, much as Ray Bradbury's haunting tales once brought a Midwest folksiness to the future. The Lathe of Heaven (1971) imagines the year 2002 and a hero whose dreams...
Earlier in the week U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan had drawn attention to the meeting by telling reporters in Washington that he intended to push for greater international cooperation to shore up the shaky monetary system. He complained that the major nations had responded to the alarming debt problems of such countries as Poland, Mexico and Brazil in a haphazard manner, lurching from one crisis to the next. "We have to have some better way of operating," said Regan. He also contended that there should be greater "viscosity," or smoother fluctuations, in exchange rates between major currencies. In recent years...
Kirby and Sen. Paul Harold (D-Quincy) represent the area served by the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, one of the only business groups to publicly oppose repeal...
...Christmas in Washington." According to an NBC spokesman. "President and Mrs. Reagan will participate in a specially produced segment from the White House." They will join a list of headliners that includes Dianne Carroll, Barbara Mandrell, Ben Vereen, former "Duke of Hazzard" John Schnieder, and Reaganite Dinah Shore. None of the Democratic hopefuls for 1984 will get equal time to rebut the President's Christmas greeting