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Harvard finished the year with a 19-4 overall mark, and posted a 10-0 record in the Ivy League on the way to hanging its first Ivy championship banner from the rafters of Bright Center...
Ronald Reagan walked into the East Room last week with just the slightest hitch in his stride. The healing from his prostate surgery was almost complete. He stood as straight as ever. Beneath a huge banner, QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE, he gave the 200 assembled businesspeople a talk that was fully ripened Reagan, expertly read from two TelePrompTers...
...coup attempt ended when rebel soldiers surrendered. The President's margin of victory forced even her most bitter opponents to concede that it represented the popular will. "We accept the verdict of the Filipino people," said former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who led the rightist opposition under the banner of the Nationalista Party. He added, "We did our share in making democracy work by taking the other side of the issue." Declared Jose Castro, a leader of the leftist Bayan Party: "We will abide with the masses' decision...
...member all-male chorus has been invited to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening ceremonies of "Rendezvous '87," a round-robin hockey tournament in Quebec which pits American and Canadian all-stars against one another and the Soviet Union's national hockey team...
...part of its crackdown on dissent in the schools, Pretoria last week empowered educational authorities to forbid students to wear shirts bearing unacceptable slogans on school grounds. The new regulations also covered uniforms and any other "article of clothing, case, flag, banner, pennant or poster," making it difficult for youngsters to use other sartorial means to express their views...