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While many around the Ivy League contend that the nation's fourth oldest college has sacrificed its academic principles in quest of athletic principals, Penn officials vigorously deny that they've compromised their admissions standards to save a once-sagging football program...
...side had to contend with the absence of coach and scrum half Martyn Kingston, fly half Geoff Gage and wing forward Dave Banks...
...five grandchildren to the U.S. a few weeks after the abduction. Duarte says he has proof that a network of guerrilla spies closely monitored the activities of all his children and planned additional kidnapings. Indeed, he says, two other daughters narrowly escaped abduction attempts. But the critics contend that moving his own family to safety undermines confidence that the government can control the rebels. "If he doesn't feel secure, how secure should we feel?" asked Barrera...
Those groups are not the only ones skeptical of Murdoch's epic vision. The Big Three networks contend that neither Fox nor anyone else can currently afford to provide the twelve to 18 hours per day of programming needed to compete with them. "What Murdoch has proposed sounds interesting, but it's not a network as we know it," contends M.S. Rukeyser, an NBC executive vice president...
...from emphysema and clutching an oxygen bottle, Williams, 70, was testifying in the trial of nine alleged Mafia leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City. They are charged with a conspiracy to skim some $2 million in profits from the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas. Prosecutors contend they used a $62.5 million loan from the Teamsters' fund in 1974 to buy the casinos and operate them under the name of the Argent Corp...