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...GOVERNMENTS INTIMIDATION of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, attained a new plateau of ludicrousness yesterday when government attorneys filed a second contempt motion in Federal District Court. Popkin had agreed, following a citation for contempt of court last week, to answer those questions already posed to him by the Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers leak. Yesterday he did just that for over five hours. Yet he refused, as he has all along during the five months of the investigation, to answer questions which pertained to his academic contacts and sources...
Grass, hash, and limited quantities of acid rarely produce bad aftereffects, Pope has found; the drugs that worry him the most are speed and depressants. A number of young people described to him "a sequence beginning with marijuana, then a rise to a plateau of hallucinogen use, followed by... a retreat to opiates, barbiturates, and alcohol." Pope thinks that because of the older generation's heavy use of downs, "depressant use may inspire less guilt or anxiety in youths than does marijuana or the hallucinogens...
...already left this place. I'm on another plateau. I am waiting for my death, yet I am not born yet." Then Bly-den holds up a clenched fist and walks to the door. A guard opens the steel gate and takes him back into prison...
...Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and hopes soared. Geologists concluded that the find was probably part of a pool extending southward to North Carolina, and oilmen accelerated the Atlantic search. Most promising sites so far: Georges Bank Trough off Massachusetts, Baltimore Canyon Trough off the Middle Atlantic states and Blake Plateau off Florida. As Geologist Wilson Laird, the consortium's spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron: "We won't know if there is a single drop of oil until we actually drill for it. But based on the topographical configurations that we have found and the nature...
...sere plateau is now the focus of an encompassing controversy. The French army has a base there and wants to expand it by taking over 35,000 acres of the sparse pasture land. The generals argue that they will need room for tank maneuvers and artillery practice when French ground troops eventually quit their bases in Germany. An odd coalition of environmentalists, tourist associations and antimilitarists are up in arms. Last month, 6,000 demonstrators marched in the town of Millau in angry, if so far vain protest...