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Although some of the most dramatic fighting yet between strikers and police broke out last week around mines in Yorkshire, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher remained uncompromising. Addressing the Lord Mayor of London's annual banquet, she declared, "This challenge will not succeed. The government will hold firm." The Catholic bishops of England and Wales, however, were sympathetic to the miners in their first statement on the strike. N.U.M. President Arthur Scargill, speaking in the southern Wales town of Aberavon, was cheered wildly by an audience of over 4,000 when he condoned violence on the picket line...
...Weakland was appointed Archbishop of Milwaukee. Instead of holding a traditional welcoming banquet for parish priests and wealthy Roman Catholic laymen, Weakland had a dinner for the city's poor. He also sold his predecessor's mansion and moved into a modest apartment in the cathedral rectory. Its one luxury: a Mason & Hamlin grand piano, which he tries to play daily...
...want to end up going out to eat on the night of the Fast, come to the Hunger Banquet; If ou don't like Oxfam's relief efforts, give your money to H.E.L.P.; If you want to earn $500,000 for Oxfam, join the Ride for Life; If you want to learn about development, go to a discussion sponsored by H.H.A.C. or H.R.I.D.F.; If you want to physically give food to the homeless, show up at PBH and join the Food Salvage program; If you can't or won't do any of that, do something else...
...been asked why, in spite of "student apathy," an event such as the Hunger Banquet could keep 60 people interested for three hours and raise $250. I answer that students are not apathetic when faced with the problem and what can be done to solve it. The problem is that people are starving, I've listed what can be done to help them. Am I right or wrong? Ranee Chang President, N.N.A.C...
After the game on Saturday, band members and alumni will join together for a "big smash banquet," said O'Brien. One of the speakers at the banquet will be Alice Tondel, "The Band's Mom," he added...