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Harvard's big baseball weekend, as quick as a crack of the bat, was gone with the wind...
...under way in Central America. U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Anthony Quainton opened new negotiations in Managua aimed at getting the Nicaraguans to pledge that they will stop supporting insurrections in neighboring countries-namely, El Salvador. In return the U.S. is willing to make a "political declaration" that it will crack down on Nicaraguan exiles said to be plotting counterrevolution from American soil and will even let Nicaragua participate in the trade and investment benefits of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. What will come of the talks is uncertain, but the very fact that the Administration appears willing to deal with...
While any one of the five would no doubt accept an offer from Philadelphia or Boston, each professes to be happy with his current situation. Slatkin cites the example of Cleveland, where George Szell turned a regional ensemble into a crack musical regiment: "If it can be done in that city, it can be done in St. Louis." Adds Simmons: "I'm not even thinking about leaving Oakland. Here, I am able to build something that is basically my own instrument. Why go somewhere else and start over again...
...Nicaraguans point, for example, to recent revelations that the U.S. is considering financing a 500-man covert paramilitary force whose goal would be to destabilize the Sandinista government. By arguing to crack down on counter-revolutionaries-in the U.S. and declaring it will not interfere in Nicaraguan affairs. Washington should go a long way toward assuaging the fears of the Sandinistas...
...group decided to visit the Union at the crack of dawn for "maximum effect," Dent said. "WE figured anyone who would apply to North House would eat breakfast at eight...