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...publicity is to LaRouche's benefit. Since the LaRouchites' win in Illinois, the Democratic Party is screening local candidates to weed out LaRouche followers. Moreover, continued exposure may sink his cult in a sea of ridicule. Said Wesley McCune, director of Washington-based Group Research Inc., which studies right-wing organizations: "Now everybody can see just how crazy...
...Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. A vehement campaigner against smoking, Koop released a study last week that among other things detailed what other governments in other times have done. In 16th century Japan, according to Koop, tobacco users were jailed, while in 17th century China anyone possessing the offending weed could be beheaded. All things considered, the restrictions against smoking today hardly seem dire...
...crowd surrounded a weed-covered tomb that had been marked until hours before with the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in 1979, two gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair...
...Welcome to...Tommy's," reads the yellow sign on the back wall, high above the dingy, easy-wash tables, the cheesesteaks frying on the grill, and the students in their black weed coats, waiting in the long line to place their orders. On the right edge of the sign is a credible illustration of a hot pastrami sandwich, on the left edge is a color photo enlargement of proprietor Thomas Stefanian's head. In the picture he is bedecked in a while French chef's hat and neckerchief--garments only the photographer has ever seen him wear. His mouth...
Tobacco may be an evil weed to some, but to the farmers who grow it, "bacca" has long been manna. The golden leaf was the American Colonies' first profitable cash crop, and since the Depression the Federal Government has guaranteed farmers a rewarding price...