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...Buffalo, a local man, Charles Smith, 23, held his 18-month-old daughter hostage at knifepoint in an attempt to hijack an American Airlines 707 at Greater Buffalo International airport. He had previously stabbed his estranged wife and her boy friend, neither fatally, before FBI agents, relatives and ministers talked him into surrendering...
...professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Fiedler subsequently wrote a scathing memoir entitled Being Busted, in which he blamed the raid largely on the fact that he had sponsored a campus group that advocated legalizing marijuana. As attitudes toward marijuana laws eased, he recalls, "I kept thinking that if I went to jail it would be grotesque, even comic." He had no lack of grounds for appeal-the girl spy repeatedly changed her story and the legality of the bugging was at least questionable-but when New York's highest court struck down...
Unlike the first two recalls, which were the result of foul-ups by G.M.'s corps of highly praised engineers, the latest error was caused by workers on the speedy production line. Just how, nobody really knows. G.M. has traced the problem to its plant in Buffalo, which has been making G.M. parts for no less than 50 years. It is believed that defective shafts were accidentally shipped to the Vega assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, instead of being placed in specially colored orange chutes reserved for faulty parts. At the Buffalo plant the machine operators work under...
...population out of Pathet Lao territory: "We saw that it wouldn't end, and we fled to the side of the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Prime Minister. Because the war was so severe, we had to flee from our homes, rice fields and paddies, cows and buffalo and come here in poverty...
...remember one from my high school days in the early 1950s. The Indian chief said to his assembled tribe during a famine: "I have good news and bad news. First the bad news: there's nothing to eat but buffalo dung. Now the good news: there's plenty of buffalo dung...