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...question for high city officials, he does not have to take "No comment" for an answer: the reporter is Tom Baker, 53, who happens to be the mayor. Baker is also the publisher of the Times, which is the sole newspaper in Waitsburg (pop. 1,035), located in southeastern Washington. Townsfolk are neither impressed nor worried by the unusual situation. Says Banker Ken Miller: "It's easy for Tom. His newspaper is only two doors down from town hall." Explains Wheat Farmer Howard Smith: "It was his turn to be mayor...
Police found a military ID card identifying the dead man as Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, 47, the chief of the Direction Generate de la Securite Exterieure, the French equivalent of the CIA, for all of southeastern France. But investigators came across precious few other clues to help crack the Nut case. The intelligence officer's .357 Magnum revolver was found 15 ft. from his body, ruling out the possibility of suicide. And even though three shots had been fired from the gun, no bullet was found in Nut's body. An autopsy revealed that he had eaten...
Government experts say that 40% of U.S. coke comes into the country aboard private planes. "In southeastern Georgia," says Gary Garner, a commander of the state's antismuggling squad, "all you have to do is get the cows out of the way and bring the planes on in. They're in and out in 45 minutes, before we even know they've been there...
...typical rural town, averages 25.5 in. of annual rainfall. Last year it had 2.3 in. In many areas seeds cannot germinate; in others the regal Murrumbidgee River is nothing but a stagnant puddle. Dust storms have enveloped Melbourne and, five weeks ago, bushfires raged over the arid ground of southeastern Australia, claiming a record 72 lives...
...local issues or personalities but on national policy. As the results came in, Socialist cities fell like dominoes-first the Brittany port of Brest, then the champagne capital of Reims, then the major industrial center of Nantes. The most sobering and startling of all losses was in the southeastern university town of Grenoble. There Conservative Alain Carignon trounced Socialist Hubert Dubedout, who has managed a model city for 18 years; the margin was a jolting 54% to 43%. The Communists, who have four ministers in Mitterrand's government, fared no better, losing eight cities that they had previously governed...