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...shot was fired as they arrested 18 people, ages 20 to 34, and confiscated the marijuana, the Two-Too Much, three smaller boats, seven cars and trucks and 16 weapons, including pistols, shotguns and Army AR-15 rifles. The Foxy Lady and her informant-skipper were allowed to slip away...
...beclouded vision of the future. But he was unable to generate fervid excitement even among his ardent supporters. As frequently happens to the President, his delivery lessened the impact of his speech; it read better than he read it. Unfortunately, the line that may be longest remembered was a slip of the tongue. Citing some of his party's illustrious members of the past, he named "Hubert Horatio Hornblower ... er ... Humphrey." Carter also went on too long. Toward the end of his 51-min. speech, some delegates were yawning and checking their watches...
...Justice Department's Lisker to conclude that "it's fairly obvious that he [Billy] misled me, that he lied." On Jan. 16, Lisker and an FBI investigator asked Billy if he had received any money from Libya. Billy said no. But last week Lisker obtained a deposit slip from the Columbus Bank and Trust Co. of Columbus, Ga., showing that Billy deposited a $20,000 check from the Libyans...
...slump leaves 8.2 million jobless, and still more face a pink slip...
...While food production is expected to rise 90% over 1970 levels in the next 20 years, assuming no deterioration in climate, most of this harvest of plenty will go to countries that are already well fed. That will mean calamitous scarcity in the Third World, which will slip farther behind the industrialized countries in per capita gross national product as well ($587 vs. $8,485 in 2000 compared with $382 vs. $4,325 in 1975, as measured in 1975 dollars). The number of malnourished will rise from an estimated half-billion people in the mid-1970s to 1.3 billion...