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...claim, accurately, that they had voted for prayer in schools. "The public doesn't care about the nuances of what type of equal access or school prayer we voted for," contends Democratic Congressman Tony Coelho of California. "On any issue, it's important to take the sting...
...John Z. De Lorean on cocaine-trafficking charges was nearly short-circuited last week by eight white envelopes. Six jurors and two alternates in the ten-week-old trial acknowledged that they had received unsolicited copies of a House report that was highly critical of the kind of FBI "sting" operation that snared De Lorean. The material came from the office of California Congressman Don Edwards, chairman of the subcommittee that prepared the study. Edwards said the copies were posted in response to what seemed a routine request from a San Francisco letter writer to forward the report...
...Singapore, government agents recently raided a farmhouse and seized 200 exotic birds, among them grand eclectus parrots, a Melanesian rarity in great demand by collectors. The entire collection of exotic specimens, worth $124,000, was being smuggled from Indonesia to Australia, the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., a "sting" set up by the Fish and Wildlife Service, an enforcement agency of the Department of the Interior, uncovered a huge, Atlanta-based black market in turtles, lizards, poisonous snakes and migratory birds. From the tiny African nation of Burundi, which has a known elephant population of one, hundreds of tons...
...population is so sensitive to the weed that contact can result in high fever and oozing blisters. Lotions are generally ineffective, and steroids, prescribed for the most severe cases, can produce a serious drug reaction. But help is at hand. A flurry of scientific advances promises to take the sting out of one of North America's most irritating environmental hazards...
...high-fashion gravewear for the body and ornate caskets equipped with comfortable innerspring mattresses. Though the book stirred public indignation and helped lead to numerous investigations of the funeral business, it was not until last week that the U.S. Government finally took action to ease death's sting to the pocketbook...