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...Afro concentrators to invite the Harvard community to an informal meeting to discuss the department's present situation. This meeting will be held in the Frederick Douglass Room of the Afro-American Studies Department, 77 Dunster Street on Wednesday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. Lewis E. Byrd...
Taiwan also dominated Teng's talks in another forum: Capitol Hill. He lunched with 85 Senators, drank tea with 80 Congressmen and chatted privately with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and House leaders. The Vice Premier repeatedly told his congressional hosts that Peking will not use force against Taiwan, unless it has to. "If they refuse to negotiate," he asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "what are we to do?" But Teng promised the Senators and Congressmen that after reunification, Taiwan can retain its capitalistic economy and even its armed forces...
Morningside Heights has been in mourning all week over the sudden and inexplicable demise of the Lions. Columbia had its "big four" of Ricky Free, Juan Mitchell, Shane Cotner, and all-time assist leader Alton Byrd returning for the third year in a row. They had played exhilarating ball last year on their way to winning 13 of their last 15 games. The league race came down to a harem scarem finish with the Lions defeating Penn on the last weekend of the season and then losing to Princeton the next night to finish a game behind the Quakers...
...season long there had been whispers that popular first year coach Buddy Mahar was too easy going and, if anything, had a little too much rapport with his players. Mahar must have reached the same conclusion because he decided to crack down. He benched Byrd, Davie Fields and Free who had started every game for the last three years, for the first 11:49 of the Yale game. The trio was benched because they had been six minutes late to a team meeting earlier...
After the loss, Byrd, the team captain, told a New York Post reporter that the team was riddled with dissension and the story broke the next day under a banner headline. Mahar and the rest of the Columbia team denied that there was any disharmony...