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...face carvings are ripped away with carbide-toothed power saws; cruder thieves use hammers, wedges or fire to split the irreplaceable sculptures into fragments for easy transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers...
...them to plan operations so that they could cut costs by flying fully loaded planes. But weeks of effort by U.S. and European government negotiators to break the deadlock over just how little to charge for the new service have proved futile. Last week representatives of the International Air Transport Association, the scheduled airlines' rate-fixing cartel, began meeting again to make another try at reaching an accord...
...SECOND MONTH I was in Vietnam I took a transport plane from Bien Hoa up to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct some business for my company. I eventually had to go to Nha Trang and Cam Ranh was the staging point for traffic flying north...
...Raitt. Taj has experimented, he once had a big band, one that featured four tubas, he's incorporated all sorts of West Indian influences into his music. Keeps coming back to the blues, though. His latest is Recycling the Blues, and recycle he does. More joyous music; watch him transport Paul's into Saturday night in the Delta...
Richard Nixon has never been able to count American scientists among his most enthusiastic supporters. In recent years, some of his own scientific consultants have publicly criticized him for his use of defoliants in Viet Nam, his support of the supersonic transport (SST) and his campaign for the Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. But the President does not seem to be listening. Administration policies, says the Federation of American Scientists, have left "the scientific community with an ever greater feeling of frustration...