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Another especially well-done portion of Contract on America is Scheim's enumeration of the deaths, under suspicious circumstances, of a dozen key witnesses and inquisitive journalists. The author's focus ranges from the prostitute who, days before the assassination, tried to warn authorities of the threat to the president's life, to the aging Mafia figure who was killed and dismembered after he told journalists that Ruby was "one of our boys." A spate of these stories, told with glorious, gory detail, makes for chilling reading indeed...
...that we have severed our ties with them. I do not think that we should have a double standard when it comes to Black fraternities and sororities. My comments about the possible application of the Massachusetts Anti-Hazing Law to the initiation practices of those groups was meant to warn them that the prolonged, regimented pledge periods may violate the spirit of the law. Archie C. Epps III, Dean of Students
Some law enforcement officers have said we are entering a critical phase in the country's battle with drugs. Just as the Costra Nostra became entrenched from the profits of illegal alcohol sales during prohibition, police warn that the national and regional networks of drug gangs may become entrenched in the next few years...
...Reagan is willing to overlook these petty indulgences. His opposition to the trade bill hinges on only one provision: a requirement that companies warn employees 60 days before closing a plant...
...giving the first practical hints about what the second-wave revolution will mean. Employing the reasoning of a special Xerox team of diagnosticians, RIC reads data from a copier's internal instruments, senses when something is about to go wrong, and sends a report to a repairman, who can warn the customer that an imminent breakdown can be avoided by taking appropriate steps. Theoretically, Xerox copiers hooked up to RIC systems should never break down...