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...Americans. They offered the soldiers fruit and vegetables and serenaded them with guitars. Women rushed to embrace the young paratroopers. "I feel so settled; I feel so free," declared Linda Charles, a cashier in a reopened gas station in St. George's. With a grin, David Rodd, a cement-plant worker, proclaimed: "This is the week of our liberation." Newly painted writing appeared beside the faded slogans of the revolution on the walls of buildings. GOD BLESS AMERICA read some. A few residents suggested as delicious irony: the island's new 10,000-ft. airstrip, begun with Cuban...
...very embarrassed and upset. We have disappointed the left all over the Caribbean." Many Grenadians not active in politics took a similar view. "The revolution taught us what the masses can do, and what the masses are going to do today is destroy the revolution," said Norris Cox, another cement worker...
China. The current growth rate of 8% to 9% in the People's Republic of China may be more than this still backward but ambitious country can handle. China's runaway drive to build factories and housing projects has produced cement shortages and other crippling bottlenecks. Chen predicted that the country's expansion may slow a bit next year...
...intiation itself consisted of about 40 men in their undershorts in the small cement-floored Pi basement being fed shots of whiskey and vodka as well as the notorious beer bong, which shoots a large volume of the hops straight into the indulger's stomach. Initiates never had a chance: the first casualties arrived at University Health Services (UHS) less than two hours after the festivities began. Members dispensing penalty shots for various imagined transgressions quickly got the initiates roaring drunk. Spilled beer and vomit made walking hazardous. One participatant lost his front teeth falling on the slick floor...
...Mabery and the Crimson would all but cement a first-over Ivy tide for the young Harvard squad. The only undefended team left in the league (at 3-0), the Crimson would only need one victory in its last two Ivy games--which come against lowly Brown and Yale--to garner the title and the accompanying NCAA tourney...