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...nobody's surprise, drugs played a part in each of these shootings. Thanks to a competitive crack market, Washington's murder rate has climbed to a national high of almost two per day. There have already been 75 D.C. homocides this year...
...such a tragedy, conservationists will unveil the most elaborate and costly plan in history to rescue a single species. Sponsored by the African Elephant Conservation Coordinating Group, a coalition of several international organizations, the plan calls for bolstering efforts to protect elephants against poachers, a study of ways to crack down on illegal trading of tusks, and a publicity campaign to alert people and governments to the relationship between the trade in ivory and the plight of the elephant. The AECCG hopes to raise at least $15 million in four years to finance its work...
Residents of sleepy Asuncion were startled when the crack of gunfire shattered a muggy summer night. Two dozen armored tanks rumbled down a residential street from the First Army Corps headquarters. For eight hours, the sounds of battle transformed several normally tranquil neighborhoods into war zones. As mutinous soldiers traded rounds with loyal government troops, bullets ricocheted wildly, felling more than 100 soldiers, pockmarking buildings and flattening tires of parked cars...
...they have been opened a crack, as attested by the photos on these pages, obtained by TIME. In a remarkable display of glasnost, the Moscow newspaper Nedelya last week published the pictures in a three-page report that gave many Soviet citizens their first look inside the forbidding KGB building on Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square. Nedelya Editor in Chief Vitali Syrokomsky and photographer Viktor Akhlomov toured the KGB's headquarters, a KGB officers' academy and the notorious Lefortovo prison, where Natan Sharansky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many lesser-known dissidents have been detained. What Syrokomsky and Akhlomov saw, of course...
...offense--led by Captain Mike Kelfer (21-20--41), David Tomlinson (13-27--40) and Sean McEachern (18-22--40)--can crack Roy and the Harvard defense early in the game, then the struggling Terriers will make Harvard's Beanpot quest a rough...