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...Seven-Per-Cent Solution is two stories, neither one sturdy enough to support the weight of a full plot. The first has Holmes strung out on cocaine - his dosage is the pun in the title - and railing crazily against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) tricks his friend into following Moriarty's trail to Vienna. There they find not the archvillain, but the only man who can possibly save Holmes: Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). All this uses up time that might have been better spent drumming up suspense or demonstrating some elementary deduction. When Holmes...
...streets of cities throughout the U.S., a heroin panic is about to hit. The bad news for strung-out junkies is the result of an extraordinary strike by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Last week, after ten days of intricately coordinated arrests in 35 cities, federal narcs had bagged 309 men and women described by DEA Chief Peter Bensinger as "distributors and kingpins in the heroin market involving Mexican Brown." It was the biggest -and perhaps most important-federal drug bust ever. In addition, warrants were out for another 150 people...
...escape by the Chao Phya River at the rear of the campus. Others who ran for the streets were set on by the rightist mob. Several were beaten close to death, then hanged, or doused with gasoline and set afire. One was decapitated. The bodies of the lynched victims strung up on trees were mutilated by rioters, who gouged out their eyes, slit their throats and lashed at them with clubs and chains...
...sight, the builders are preparing to sell off the vast store of equipment accumulated in 2½ years of construction. Among the items for sale: 18,000 bulldozers, cranes and other pieces of heavy equipment; nearly 2,000 pickup trucks; 125 portable bridges; and from the 29 construction camps strung out along the line, 5,395 modular camp buildings fitted out as dormitories, kitchens, game rooms and offices and fully equipped right down to the telephones and Coke machines. Alyeska's most prized offering: 1,500 elaborately insulated outhouses built, at a cost of $ 10,000 each, to serve...
Despite the fact that the Crimson defense has allowed only one goal in five games and has strung together three straight shutouts since a 2-1 squeeker over Bates, team captain Ann Dupuis, who leads the defense from her sweeper fullback position, still sees room for improvement...