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...much as we'd like the President to understand his Administration's policies and this nation's history before discussing them at press conferences, that hope is likely of no avail. Suffice it to say that we look forward to the day when we can tell our error-prone chief executive. "There you go again"--this time, for good...
Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder tried assigning different women to cover Qualls, but to no avail; even Hall. Harvard's most imposing forward, was unable to contain her. "She's just too strong, we couldn't push her around. As soon as she got a step on you, she got the ball and scored." Hall said...
...arrival in Bonn, a West German company signed an agreement with the Soviet Union that cleared the way for the largest East-West trade contract ever concluded: the construction of a $10 billion pipeline to deliver Siberian natural gas to Western Europe. The U.S. had tried, but to no avail, to convince the West Germans that becoming dependent on the Soviets for fuel would make the country too vulnerable to political pressures...
...upset by both kinds of Cubans. Stuck on the bottom rung of South Florida's economic ladder, they have always resented the more prosperous Cuban minority. With the arrival of the Marielitos, blacks feared that they would lose out in the scramble for the few low-skill jobs avail able in the region. Even in Liberty City, the black enclave in North Miami where 18 people died in last year's riot, the Latin influence is apparent. White store owners who abandoned their businesses are being replaced by Latin landlords. "The only things blacks have in Miami are several hundred
...prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably obscure. He was praised by Thomas Mann and a host of lesser literati as a son of Kafka and a father of Ionesco, and seven of his books are avail able in English translation from Continuum Publishing Co. in the U.S. But, while Canetti's landmark novel Auto-da-Fé, originally The Dazzlement, and nonfiction magnum opus Crowds and Power have been occasional bestsellers in Central Europe, they never garnered a wide audience elsewhere...