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...headaches. Local police are often loath to arrest growers, especially when communities are dependent on pot income. Some even tip off planters to impending law-enforcement raids. In many states, the penalties meted out for growing grass often amount to little more than a wrist slap anyway. Even with stiffer sentencing, enforcement would remain difficult. Growers have become adept at hiding pot patches from airborne police. One farmer in Kentucky is growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect their crops with armed guards, attack dogs...
...death. Warned P.L.O. Spokesman Bassam Abu Sherif: "They can raid and shell Beirut until they destroy this city, but the Israelis will never enter Beirut. We will fight street to street, house to house, and we will defeat Begin in Beirut." Indeed, the P.L.O. had put up stiffer resistance at many points than the Israelis may have expected, and the closer Israeli columns got to Beirut the bloodier the fighting became. This pressure, plus the success in its major goals and increasing international protests, may have been what led Israel to call for a cease-fire with the Palestinian guerrillas...
...season wound down, even these ambiguities disintegrated in the face of stiffer competition. The 15 goals scored by Penn State were the most by a Crimson opponent in three years. Harvard then proceeded to give up 13 goals in the first round of the Nationals, losing to the Owls of Temple and dashing all hopes of bettering last year's fourth place finish...
...Corrigan, Harvard's talented number three player coasted to straight game wins over Dartmouth's Leslie Subak and Brown's Perrin Tingley. However, she faces stiffer competition today in the form of Princeton's Joanne Sherry, the journey's seventh seed...
...even if stiffer Federal regulations are implemented, changes in the attitudes of doctors toward their patients will take time. Some poor Third World groups, however, feel that time is the one element they lack. As one Native American Doctor explained in a recent article in America: "We are not like other minorities. We have no gene pool in Africa or Asia. When we are gone, that...