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Anti-semitic violence has tripled since 1981 at the University of Texas, according to anti-defamation officials there, and a recent spate of vandalism and violence has students there particularly concerned...
...wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine...
...excreting them in the U.S. The danger to the mule is that a packet may rupture, causing a massive drug overdose. The technique is becoming either safer or less popular. Since late 1980, the Dade County coroner has not come across any body-packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport in New York, 51 mules have been arrested on the hoof: suspects are X-rayed and, if they do not confess, put in a hospital with a bedside commode and two patient customs guards. "The packets often come...
...picking up a newspaper or magazine. Teller has been arguing for an antiballistic-missile system since the mid-1960s. He fell silent after the signing of the treaty banning such systems in 1972, a grievous mistake, in his opinion, but has taken up the cudgels again in a spate of articles during the past two years. His opinions, as summarized for TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson last week, dismiss contrary opinion as vigorously as ever...
...even such a seemingly safe choice for acting administrator has turned into an exploding cigar for the White House. By week's end three House subcommittees and the EPA's inspector general were probing a spate of charges that Hernandez made improper decisions benefiting industry. Reagan aides, who had hoped that Burford's ouster would provide some breathing space and subdue the impression that the Administration has favored polluters, were foiled. Groused one White House official: "Every time we turn around, something is screwed up over there...