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Police reported that Belushi's physical trainer had arrived at the hotel early Friday afternoon and found the actor curled naked and unconscious on his bungalow bed. A hotel security guard attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation without success. By the time the corpse, covered with a brown blanket, was removed from the hotel, all elements of a Hollywood creep show were in place: stories of a mysterious woman in Belushi's room early that morning; rumors of the star's traveling with a cocaine crowd; paparazzi shouting and shoving and climbing over police cars to catch...
...added, though, that resistance to maintaining the policy collapsed quickly in the course of the committee's discussion and that "no real opposition" to reaffirming that blanket ban existed...
Although it is not certain that the ACSR will vote on the bank issue at the meeting tonight, it is important that members be reminded of student concern about lifting the blanket ban, Anderson said...
Although Mehra and other students did not predict the result of a vote they expressed guarded optimism that the advisors committee would decide to ask the Corporation to reaffirm the present blanket ban enacted in 1978 after months of student protest...
...Corporation asked the committee in January to review the present South Africa bank policy because it said the blanket ban allowd Harvard no discretion to allow ostensibly "humanitarian" loans to the country...