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...coaches' preseason poll ranked Harvard 17th in the NCAA and senior Howard Sands 17th among all singles players...
...extraordinary terms, Italy's Defense Minister Lelio Lagorio last week described new revelations concerning the attempt by a Turkish terrorist to assassinate Pope John Paul II 19 months ago. Lagorio was one of four ministers who, in the space of ten hours, appeared in Rome's ornate, 17th century Parliament to accuse Bulgaria, and by implication the Soviet Union, of standing behind Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca's failed effort...
...poverty and threatened by rapid change in their societies. All these conflicting patterns and tensions converge in Latin America, which has more U.S. missionaries than any other part of the world: some 9,250 Protestants and 2,180 Catholics. With a few notable exceptions, Catholic missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries preached subservience to Spanish and Portuguese rule, while promising the natives a better life in the hereafter. Protestant missionaries, who began arriving in force in the 19th century, condemned the rich Catholic landowners and military elites, and were severely persecuted. As recently as the decade ending...
...Soviet presence in Cuba signifies the end of the Monroe Doctrine: our continent has become, as in the 16th and 17th centuries, one of the theaters where the great powers struggle for supremacy. Facing this new situation, American leaders have attempted to design a new Latin American policy; they have succeeded only in repeating the old mistakes. But this criticism must also be applied, although in the other direction, to the Latin American anti-imperialists. The example of Castro's Cuba, now a "socialism of the barracks"-as Engels called Bismarck's Germany-dependent on Moscow as Batista...
...Grinch Stole Christmas," Dec. 18. This is the 17th rebroadcast of the animated Dr. Seuss classic, which follows one miser's ill-fated attempt to erase Christmas from the village of Whoville. The late Boris Karloff provides the voice of Grinch, as well as all the other voices and narration...