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Acting on a tip from a Conant Hall resident. Harvard Police early last Sunday morning arrested two 19-year-old Cambridge men who were cutting cocaine on a mirror in the lobby of a Law School dorm located on the corner of Oxford and Everett Streets...
...careful a journalist is, the more vulnerable he becomes to charges of malice: a reporter whose extensive research leads him to conclude that one side is right in a dispute can be accused of malice for discounting the evidence on the other side, while a writer who prints a tip without checking it can argue that he is immune from malice charges because he had no doubt about the item's veracity. The provision for examining the journalist's state of mind ensured that libel suits would grow longer and costlier; the Herbert case, brought...
...Spain's northern Basque country has a notorious history of foggy weather and low cloud cover. But last Tuesday morning, the skies were clear as Iberia Airlines Flight 610 from Madrid began its landing approach. A few moments later, only 19 miles from the airport, the plane struck the tip of a 177-ft.-high television antenna on Mount Oiz (elevation 3,366 ft.), burst into flames and crashed into a wooded hillside. All 148 people aboard were killed. Three Americans were among the passengers, as was Bolivia's Minister of Labor, Gonzalo Guzman...
...early February a small jet en route from California to Florida stopped for refueling at the Kleberg County Airport, near Kingsville, Texas. Acting on a tip, U.S. Customs officials searched the aircraft and found nearly $6 million in $100 and $20 bills in the suitcases of one of the passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas...
House Speaker Thomas P.(Tip) O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass,) will retire from his influential position next year after 34 years as a representative from Massachusetts' eighth district...