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...Atmospheric Administration noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported losses totaling $50 million. Estimates of other financial casualties are growing. In Sacramento, officials predict that the drought will cause losses of $500 million in crops, $500 million in livestock and $1 billion in farm income-more than a fifth of California...
...Syria's Hafez Assad. The three ledfders found the portents discouraging. If Washington is unable to exert pressure on the new Israeli government for a settlement, one Syrian official said, "any kind of peace conference would be quite useless. The only other way would appear to be to resort to military action...
...forty-seven thousand times and it smells about the same as well, and the guys that work down there have put your uniform in it so you can't pass any time doing that so you head into the training room to get taped up as a last resort. You ask around to see how long the lines are at each taping table and you try and worm into the line for your favorite trainer. (There's always one trainer who isn't quite as popular and although you don't know why he's not popular--a tape...
...purpose. A door connected their offices with those of lawyers who were involved in some of the transactions. From Chiasso, an estimated $880 million was funneled to a Liechtenstein-based holding company called Texon-Finanzanstalt. In turn, that company invested the money in three Italian undertakings: a winemaker, a resort near Venice and a plastics manufacturer...
Dellacroce makes his money from loan-sharking and gambling. He is now moving his aides and muscle into Atlantic City, where legal casino gambling is expected to be the salvation of the moribund resort and possibly the source of a bonanza for the Mob. By legalizing casino gambling in Atlantic City, New Jersey has given New York and Pennsylvania a strong incentive to follow suit ?a situation the Mob relishes...