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...green-clad fans, inebriated in the pre-game hysteria, blanched when Crimson linebacker fell on a Jeff Dufresne fumble on the third play from scrimmage. The Harvard offense, however, failed to get past the Dartmouth 30-yd. line on a fourth-and-one crack into the line, and from then forward, the Big Green assumed control...
...them to vote. The rural whites in the Florida panhandle are considerably more wary. They have reservations about Carter's economic, defense and foreign policies, and they are attracted by Reagan, who speaks their language. So are the established Cubans in Florida, who feel that the Republican would crack down harder on Castro than Carter does...
...influx of white heroin is perverse testimony to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's success in persuading Turkey and Mexico to crack down on their illicit poppy growers. Succeed it has, and so the drug suppliers have turned to the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where government control is too weak to keep the poppy fields from blooming. U.S. narcotics officials estimate that the Golden Crescent is producing about 1,600 tons of opium a year, nine times the output of the rest of the world. Says DEA Chief Peter Bensinger: "It dwarfs anything we have known...
Soviet experts in the West have known of the KGB'S disinformation activities for years; dealing with them is quite another matter. For the first time, French authorities have begun to crack down on the practice. In the past 15 months, two writers have been arrested and charged with using secret foreign contacts to jeopardize national security. Other French journalists are wondering whether the campaign against disinformation is beginning to restrict the free flow of information...
...they seem to be reaching out for new solutions-and, of course, new ways to get elected. Broder announces proudly his confidence in their ability to do so, though the 500 pages contain precious little in the way of new political thinking. At least, Broder concludes, "they have a crack at turning the country around...It will be worth staying around to watch." Indeed it will, just as it will be worth following up on Broder's fascinating political tip sheet for the eighties, nineties, and beyond...