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Before Indonesia's President Suharto departed on a foreign tour this fall, he paused for a special ceremony. One of Indonesia's dukuns (soothsayers) had predicted a possible disaster for the country in late 1970, and sacrificial rites were duly scheduled. Several water buffalo were rounded up and slaughtered. The head of one was buried on the eastern tip of Java, and the head of another on the western edge. With Indonesia's most populous island thus bracketed, Suharto embarked on his journey. So far, no disaster...
...Haven chapter of the Committee has estimated a crowd of 5000 people will attend the rally from chapters in Boston, New York, Buffalo, Ithaca, Washington and Philadelphia...
...main concern is to have free time to do my work," Barth explained. He currently teaches two advanced creative writing courses at the State University of New York at Buffalo. "I want to finish up some projects that are in the works and maybe start on some new ones," he added...
...varying amounts of patronage-for example, the Northeast to Florida, Chicago to New Orleans, and New York to Chicago -would presumably be continued. But a substantial number of the nation's 383 intercity trains are likely to die, including such little-used ones as the thrice-weekly Harrisburg-Buffalo run, or the Salt Lake City-Butte, Mont., runs...
...Association has contributed funds in the past year to a number of projects in the Buffalo area, allegedly without the consent of the group's Executive Council which was in charge of such decisions...