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Some 150 years ago, Pirate Jean Lafitte found the Cajun country of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, with its network of swamps and its 6,000 miles of inland waterways, a congenial place to evade the law. Today a new group of lawbreakers has discovered its convenience: drug smugglers. Since October, more than 250 tons of marijuana have been confiscated in the New Orleans area, three times the amount taken in the entire previous year. Huge busts of 20, 30, 40 tons or more occur regularly, but authorities estimate they are intercepting only about 10% of the traffic...
...word of Dixon's disappointment got around Washington, Inaugural Band Coordinator Terry Chambers reconsidered his lineup and found room for at least one more band. Late last week the joyful Dukes got the word that, "as a special request from the President-elect," their show could go on. The capes and plumes also helped. Chambers acknowledged that a major reason for Dixon's invitation was that their outfits were not like any of the others...
...Soviets are wary of it. Terms like "democracy" and "pluralism" crop up frequently in Solidarity conversations. At an outdoor rally late last month, one woman demanded full public disclosure of the Katyn Forest massacre, and another asked about rumors that a new mass grave had been found. Walesa tried to deflect these inflammatory questions, but his answer must have troubled the Kremlin even so: "We do have to have a settling of accounts. Right now we have to work on odnowa." Some Solidarity theoreticians, while conceding the party its "leading role," tend to define that role narrowly. Says Jacek Kuron...
...their part, the Greens, who plan to have more children, apologized for any "affront" to the court and asked forgiveness. Judge Francis Keating gave them just that. He found them guilty, but passed no sentence. Declaring the case "exceptional," Keating said: "Any further punishment beyond what has already been endured would certainly be unfair...
...spinning with a glorious new Aïda singing of passion and patriotism, a sinuous Donna Summer purring about loves lost and found, works by Vivaldi, Schubert, Stravinsky, Blondie, Talking Heads and Itzhak Perlman on the jazz violin...