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...little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...
Picking up on a rumor that Mondale was about to crush the filibuster, Abourezk scoffed, "Ah, he wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting...
...young but spirited Harvard women's soccer team survived an arctic wind and the first period loss of its top scorer to crush the University of Vermont yesterday...
...team member said confidently, "No doubt we're gonna crush Vermont, the team's just ready...
...regime to reopen one of Gorky's 100 or so closed churches; many are now in use as bakeries, museums or warehouses. According to the petition, the Gorky churches are so crowded on Sundays that their congregations overflow onto the streets and old people faint in the crush...