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...maximum turnout, the authorities banned liquor sales a day before the voting, rescheduled soccer matches and postponed a popular television soap opera until five minutes after the polls had closed. In rural areas, entire villages, in a swirl of colorful peasant costumes, dutifully trooped to local election halls behind brass bands. In the northwestern hamlet of Szczecinek, voting was temporarily disrupted when a woman gave birth to a healthy son beside the ballot box. In Walesa's hometown of Gdansk, 3,000 people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed WE WON'T GO TO THE POLLS...
...freshman supplement will provide a forum for literary expression for freshmen who might be too intimidated to make submissions to the Advocate, said Selinger. "It takes a certain amount of brass to submit to the Advocate as a freshman," he said...
...Brass Ensemble: Kresge Auditorium...
...Empire Brass Quintet: Open Rehersal, Art Gallery, Boston University School of Music...
Mitterrand did just that. In dismissing Hernu and ordering a shake-up within the secret services, the President aroused the displeasure of France's top military brass, who feel that their colleagues were sacrificed for political expediency. Yet Mitterrand had little choice, not only for his own government's future but for France's battered image. In New Zealand, Prime Minister David Lange responded sharply to Hernu's resignation. Said he: "France has handled the Rainbow Warrior affair in the most destructive way possible...