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...against St. Lawrence on Saturday, Flomenhoft threw his body around with reckless abandon, crushing three Saints in the first period, pasting another in the second, nailing Shawn Rivers twice in the third and scuffling with Rob White in overtime...
Meanwhile, Washington and the Vatican were trying to find a way out of their diplomatic deadlock. A Vatican statement asserted that Laboa was "doing his best to convince General Noriega to abandon the nunciature on his own," though it added that the legate "cannot force Noriega to leave." The White House for its part declared its "appreciation" of Vatican efforts and reassured the papacy that "there are no fixed deadlines...
...over Noriega's fate, President Guillermo Endara said the stalemate could end if the Vatican and the papal nuncio "say once and for all that Noriega doesn't deserve to be sheltered in the house of God, that he is a common criminal of the worst kind and should abandon the sacred place...
...years, he temporized, trying to get a bad system to work better by eliminating drunkenness, corruption and inefficiency. This policy failed, so he adopted bolder reforms. His purpose was not to abandon Communism but to save it. Ironically, by doing so he has become the darling of Western intellectuals and pundits...
...general, we need an increased financial commitment to education. But it must be be accompanied by a reform of the distribution of funds. We must abandon the system of financing schools with local property taxes, a system that perpetuates inequities among localities and raises barriers to disadvantaged students...