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This week's trivia question comes to us from our New York correspondent, who asks: Who is currently second in scoring in the Belgian professional basketball league, averaging nearly 30 points per game? Answer below...
Quiz answer: Joe Carrabino '85, Harvard's all-time leading scorer with 1880 career points, is burning up the Belgian league...
Elsewhere, tantalizing tidbits trickled out to support both sides of the Mengele argument. Six days before the exhumation at Embu, Alfonz Dierckx, a Belgian photographer based in Paraguay, told the Paraguayan paper Hoy that Mengele, whom he had known in the early 1960s, had gone to a German colony in Brazil. There, said Dierckx, he had drowned some years earlier...
Fearful of triggering an even more terrible riot if they called off the match, Belgian officials and members of the Union of European Football Associations decided that it should be played. "Call it a surrender to fear if you wish," said Association Treasurer Jo Van Marle. Italian Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi, in Moscow for discussions with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, telephoned Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens after the riot to protest the decision. Said Martens: "I told him that the decision to begin play was taken purely for reasons of security." The crowd, which was largely unaware...
...Roman Catholic cathedral, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock, summed up the feelings of shocked and puzzled citizens. "If it comes to responsible human conduct and moral behavior," he said, "the answer lies in ourselves." At a service held in a hangar at a Brussels military airport on Saturday, Belgian Prime Minister Martens paid his final respects to 25 of the riot victims. He spoke of the need "to put an , end to this mad race toward violence." Then, as more than 100 relatives of the dead tearfully filed past the coffins covered with flowers, three priests gave their blessings...