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...after giving up the presidency, effortlessly restored himself to power. Nobody was hurt in the takeover; Cruz was simply sent home, where he announced that he had known the coup was coming all along. As Honduras' new President for "not less than five years," López must contend this week with a threatened peasants' hunger march on the capital of Tegucigalpa. After that, he is expected to seek a conciliatory meeting with El Salvador's President Arturo Armando Molina...
What's worse than trying to sleep to the drip-drip of a leaky faucet? That's right. Trying to study to the clank-clank of a steam pipe. That's what the average stall-user has to contend with daily in Widener Library. With all respect to Widener's age and reputation as a bulwark of books, the place has at least this one uningratiating side. I guess you'd call it just old-fashioned wind. At any moment, the quiet of your stall is likely to be shattered by a god awful, devil-inspired cacophany of thumps, whacks...
...crucial dispute between IBEW and CBS is not so much wages and fringe benefits as an issue relatively new to TV labor negotiations: automation. Although CBS claims that no jobs are in jeopardy, union leaders contend that a number of electronic breakthroughs have encouraged CBS to reduce IBEW jurisdiction over new equipment. The Telestrator, for example, transforms freehand drawings into TV images, thus enabling news, weather and sports broadcasters to supplement existing graphics with instant doodles of their own. IBEW is willing to allow freehand lettering by performers with artistic ability but not by amateurs; CBS wants to allow newsmen...
Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermann and attorneys for the city contend that even though Frisoli had tenure as a teacher and could not be fired from the system, he did not have the three years service required for tenure as superintendent and thus could be reassigned to a different position...
...squad plays up to its potential, it can be an Ivy power. "If" that squad can throw off the sluggishness that shat plagued it through pre-season practice and the "breeds" (intrasquad competition bouts for first team position), the squad could contend. "If" the squad members can get to practice on a regular basis, Marion could think seriously about his first Ivy title...