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...second half continued much like the first: Prusmack swiftly took the opening face-off to the goal, pausing only once to crush an opponent with his free hand...
...months before the crackdown, the Polish government would only alienate its countrymen by attempting to cripple the labor movement and, most important, would bring the powerful church into direct conflict with the Polish regime. "I didn't think that this ((the decision to impose martial law and crush Solidarity)) could stand, because of the history of Poland and the religious aspect and all," Reagan says. Says Cardinal Casaroli: "There was a real coincidence of interests between the U.S. and the Vatican...
...organized the most obvious, and essential, opening moves: arresting, or preferably killing, potential opponents (some supporters of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev operated unmolested from a Kremlin office almost next door to Yanayev's); assuring themselves of the loyalty of military units and then moving them into position to crush resistance speedily (army and KGB units flatly refused to storm the White House, the marble-faced Moscow headquarters of the Russian republic and the center of resistance); and cutting the communications of resistance leaders (George Bush was openly surprised at how easy it was for him to put through a phone...
STRIKE UP THE BAND (Nonesuch/Elektra). This Gershwin pseudo-operetta folded in tryouts in 1927 despite such standards as The Man I Love and the title song. Radically reconceived in 1930, it then featured I've Got a Crush on You and still funny satirical ditties. Neither book is good enough to hold the stage these days, but both scores are meticulously sung in a new recording, invaluable to musical buffs. A high spot: tap numbers that capture the clatter and swish of each individual shoe...
...elect DeGiorgio "would be to crush the foundation we have built," said Michael, who has served the past year as the club's program director...