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Police Detective Steve Moger was the first to notice that something strange was going on in Hackensack, N.J. Starting in February, hundreds of people were lining up at pay-phone booths all over town, chatting for hours at a time. A two-week investigation by local police and New Jersey Bell uncovered the cause of that loquaciousness: a computer glitch that allowed 400 pay phones in the Hackensack area to be used for worldwide conversations without costing the caller a cent. After bugging selected phones, the authorities realized that almost half the international calls placed in an eight-week period...
...around a massive evaporator system used for making salt. It is a complex network of ponds, retainer walls and narrow approaches that is well suited for Iranian defenses. Iraq's Soviet-made tanks are unable to advance along the narrow roads and soft levees leading to the town. When tanks do get into position, they are badly exposed and easily crippled by fire from Iranian rocket- propelled grenades. Should the Iraqis succeed in driving the Iranians out of the salt evaporator, notes a Western military observer, "they will have to fight in the ruins of Fao." Once an Iraqi...
...Helping Town-Gown...
Harvard administrators praise Citystep's effect on town-gown relations. "The students and the work they do in the community, including Citystep, are the most positive contribution Harvard can make to the community," says Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice president for state and community affairs...
...exhausted Radcliffe rugby team rested five injured players yesterday, playing the MIT Engineers to an 8-8 cross-town...