Word: southern
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...swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass from South America was seized after landing in Bedford, Mass...
Authorities say that smuggling in the New England region has been increasing in recent years as drug-runners started moving north to avoid the heat generated by U.S. agents along the nation's southern border. New England's 250 colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says 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...
...message from Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was shrill and urgent: "Our forces are under heavy Israeli attack. Enemy warplanes are overhead. We need help desperately." Visiting southern Lebanon to persuade Palestinian fighters there to accept a peace arrangement with Lebanese Christians, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader suddenly found himself under fire. Arafat and his men were besieged at Beaufort Castle-a historic Crusader fort in the shadow of Mount Hermon-not only by Christian gunners but also by Israeli artillery. Under cover of those guns, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across...
...week's end the Israelis remained in southern Lebanon. Best estimates were that the Israeli forces consisted of a battalion of infantry, supported by artillery and armor. They were also protected by heavy air cover and a flotilla of patrol boats off the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon to cut off supplies for the Palestinians. Under protection of Israeli artillery, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman even toured the area in an unmarked automobile, accompanied by Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur and Major General Yanush Ben-Gal, commander of Israel's northern sector...
Neva L. Seidman '78, an Economics concentrator living in Adams House, is co-author of U.S. Multinationals in Southern Africa [Lawrence Hill, 1977] and is a consultant to the U.N. Special Committee on Apartheid...