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...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is another militant splinter from the Habash group. Led by Ahmed Jebreel, 45, a onetime Syrian army officer, the General Command's hard-core force of 150 guerrillas was responsible for the Qiryat Shemona raid in Israel last spring in which an apartment house was attacked and 16 occupants were killed...
...jail" is a common command in the ever-popular game Monopoly. But in the real world, businessmen who break antitrust laws are hardly ever put behind bars; only 38 violators of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act have been sentenced to jail in that law's 84-year history. Now that situation could be changing. As part of its struggle against the nation's roaring inflation, the Ford Administration has announced plans for a sweeping new assault against anticompetitive practices, including price-fixing conspiracies and agreements between companies not to sell in each other's prime market areas...
...Harvard defense was now inspired and refused to surrender yardage to the Brown squad. The Crimson offense took command once again and the momentum had clearly swung in Harvard's favor. O'Brien, who splits the Crimson quarter-backing chores with Doug Gordon, reentered the game and directed the squad inside Brown territory...
Four counties in Washington and Oregon put into effect an emergency preparedness plan, devised in 1970, that calls for erecting a command post to coordinate emergency power needs at a remodeled bomb shelter in the Kelly Butte area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost...
Though I lack Mr. Ferrara's impressive command of statistics, the six weeks I spent this summer working on a California ranch assured me not only that labor camps still exist, but that the conditions in at least one of them are appealing...