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...with less than two minutes remaining, Rajballie greeted the Tigers' late-game replacement goalie with his third tally of the day--off Nicholas' second assist of the game. The freshman from Toronto, Ontario now has four goals on the year...
That looked like a bad decision when halfback Sean Carew fumbled the ball at the line of scrimmage. But credit Carew with an assist...
Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode was the picture of control last May after a police confrontation with the radical black group Move left eleven cult members and children dead and ignited a fire that swept through 61 houses. Under his leadership, Philadelphians rallied to assist the 250 homeless residents of the Osage Avenue neighborhood; the city pledged to rebuild their destroyed houses and repair all damage caused by the fire, at a cost of some $12 million. The mayor also accepted full responsibility for what had happened. As he explained then: "People like a decisive leader (who) does...
...around the world who have taken up arms to resist Communist-imposed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take the rest. Since 1979 they have lost 750 planes in Afghanistan, mainly on the ground. The guerrillas now control twice as large...
Among other things, the foreigners echoed complaints by some Mexicans that almost 4,000 troops guarding the devastated areas did little or nothing to assist in the rescue effort. Moreover, Mexican officials were allegedly more anxious to bulldoze ruined buildings than to proceed with the painstaking / rescue work, apparently out of the mistaken fear that decomposing corpses in the ruins would cause epidemics. Carl Heinz Wolbert, a West German police detective and volunteer rescue expert, wept in frustration at the resulting delays. Said he: "We can touch the people who are trapped. In Mexico it is impossible to get them...