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...unit, composed of 101 veteran undercover officers. The unit is the first New York police squad ever devoted to fighting a single drug. Miami's 16-month-old street narcotics operation busted seven crack base houses, arrested 485 dopers and confiscated more than $8,000 in cash during a six-week period this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Having raised less than $200,000 so far, officials from the Harvard United Way and Other Charities Campaign predicted they will double that amount when the six-week campaign ends tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Way Campaign Nears End of Drive | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

Decisions on the meals schedule are made by dietitian Dale Hennessey, who explains that the meals work on a six-week cycle which repeats itself throughout the school year. There are some minor changes from cycle to cycle--depending on the particular season. "This year we have made many changes," says Hennessey, adding that the changes include the addition of potato skins, couscous, tabouli and some kinds of Mexican food to the standard menu. "We try to find out what the students like and don't like," says Hennessey. "If the change is feasible, we make...

Author: By Inigo L. Garcia, | Title: Downstairs at the Union: A Slice of Freshman Life | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...enunciation of his reforms over the course of the four provincial congresses, thereby involving the whole National Party in his plans. "He had established a timetable, building up to a climax," says one Afrikaner journalist, "and he was not prepared to change that plan for anyone." During that six-week period, however, much of the world caught on to what the blacks of South Africa knew all along: the new pitch for "cooperative coexistence," much like earlier calls for "separate development," "plural relations" and "co-responsibility," is just another way of saying apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Apartheid By Another Name | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...second six-week phase of the arms-control talks began in midweek, Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, said that he had returned from Washington armed with "negotiating flexibility"; his Soviet counterpart, Viktor Karpov, described himself as a "practical optimist." Nonetheless, the prognosis for progress was gloomy. Reagan shows no inclination to back down on Star Wars. Indeed, two U.S. arms-control officials suggested last week that the 1972 antiballistic-missile treaty might have to be revised to accommodate space technologies. As Brandt said after his Moscow visit, "It will be very, very difficult to find a common denominator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Carrot and Stick | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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