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...panel decided to refer his case to the full Ring (regional circuit) of the church for decision. This week executives of the South African Council of Churches will hold their own emergency meeting on the situation. Any Mission Church decision to suspend or defrock the clergyman would have a wide, wounding ripple effect. Boesak would have to resign his position as the Mission Church's No. 2 officer, as well as the presidency of the World Alliance. One of the most powerful moral voices within South Africa would be gravely compromised...
This week's cover story, on the massive influx of South American drugs into the U.S., reports the ominous conclusion of a new Government study: the size of coca crops is increasing in countries that account for much of the illegal drug flow. TIME's own wide-ranging look at the insidious traffic began last October, when Los Angeles-based Correspondent Jonathan Beaty undertook to find out how the trade had changed in recent years. Beaty visited Central and South America, where he had, as he puts it, "whispered interviews with cocaine traffickers in Rio nightclubs, a clandestine meeting with...
...illicit drug trade, according to Vice President George Bush, head of President Reagan's South Florida Task Force, brings in about $100 billion a year. The alarming growth of some aspects of that trade was confirmed last week, when the U.S. State Department released a wide-ranging report on the global narcotics picture. According to the account, worldwide production of marijuana declined last year by more than 10%, thanks in large part to the war against drugs in Colombia, the leading exporter of marijuana to the U.S. Worldwide production of opium, the base for heroin, slipped by a similar amount...
...women have impersonal, difficult parts that seem to evaporate. The men are better served, Lavery with wonderfully weighted balances, Andersen with quicksilver darts and turns. This has been Andersen's best season since he arrived five years ago from the Royal Danish Ballet. He has moved through a wide range of repertory looking very much at home yet utterly distinctive: elegant, slightly exotic, confidently musical. As usual Robbins has chosen his ensemble well, mostly from the company's younger dancers, and he has set them blazing on a formidable allegro course...
...from open scientific communication. Moreover, the report took note of the close connections between the American tradition of open communication, scientific and technological innovation, and national security. Despite this conclusion, NAS staff members reported this year that government policymakers are moving to implement new secrecy regulations before a government-wide consensus is reached. The staff also stated that where regulations already exist, policymakers are aggressively stretching their authority beyond its previous limits...