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...written appears to bend over backwards to assign blame to the Reagan-Administration," he said. "And it contains innuendoes unsupported by the documents we have...
Last month Freshman Shannon Welcome, 18, of Woodstock, Ill., started classes at St. Mary's, a small women's college across the street from Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. "I guess you could say it's my dream school," she exclaims. "I can take classes at Notre Dame but still have the intimacy and nurturing atmosphere of St. Mary's." Welcome is considering a law career, and, she says, "I think the competitive benefits of being in a women's college will give me an edge...
...quite-melted running track, Alice Miller, 67, of South Bend, is hard at work under the hot sun. She is a lean, quick-smiling grandmother with cottony white hair, and what she does is hug. When an athlete here finishes an event, he or she gets a hug -- that's a rule, one that might be expanded to the wider world, and Alice is great at it, having practiced on four children and eleven grandchildren...
There was a lot of courage and generosity going around. Almost everything in South Bend was done, and done well, by volunteers, among them some 1,200 members of a service group called Civitan. Community people back in Elizabeth City, N.C., held bass-fishing derbies and bowlathons and the like to help Beverly James compete. She is the tenth of twelve children -- "eight of whom have finished college," her mother Penny says with pride -- and her father Roscoe has Parkinson's disease. Beverly, 19, who functions at a second-grade level intellectually, is pleasant and mannerly...
With hugs and heroism, world happiness records are set at the Summer Olympics for the mentally handicapped in South Bend...