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Brown goaltender Kirsten Grendell kicked away 50 Crimson shots, although few had scoring potential. Harvard Tri-Captain and goaltender Jen White wasn't as busy, stopping 21 Brown shots. She did, however, have to contend with Brown brute Mara Yale, who threatened White with harassing interference rather than skilled play...
Disorder in the south was not all Gorbachev had to contend with last week. Fearing that suggested amendments to the Soviet constitution will once again concentrate power in Moscow, legislators in Estonia, one of the three Baltic republics, rejected the proposals two weeks ago and called for parity in the relationship between Estonia and the central government. Though stopping short of Estonia's provocative claim to legal sovereignty, Lithuania, Latvia and Georgia announced that they too would fight some of the proposed constitutional amendments...
...state boundaries. Estonian concern focuses on a bloc of 750 legislators in the 2,250-member Congress who are to be elected by pan-Soviet organizations, such as artists' unions, veterans groups or the Communist Youth League, rather than by voters in local constituencies. Legal experts in Tallinn contend that the parliamentary reorganization will dilute the influence of the individual republics in national affairs. They specifically fear that the innovations will give those Soviet citizens who belong to national organizations the equivalent of a second vote...
...anticruelty legislation and an occasional raid on research facilities to free the animals inside, has entered a terroristic phase. But activists were quick to disavow the use of violent tactics. Says Julie Lewin of the Fund for Animals: "Violence toward people does not help animals." Some animal-rights proponents contend that Trutt's aborted bomb attack is so damaging to their cause that it may have been instigated by an agent provocateur. Police say they believe the bomb she planted was too sophisticated for her to have made by herself. As the FBI joined the investigation last week, Trutt professed...
...response, Harvard officials contend that their institution's wealth does not give it disproportionate influence in City Hall, and that the University's stances do not run counter to the public interest...