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...unity never comes easily to Democrats, nor does fund raising. Before the Democrats even set forth last week in a pair of DC-8 jets, Jesse Jackson accused party leaders of "stacking the deck" against outsiders, minorities and the poor. Alan Cranston refused to join the trip because of a squabble with Party Chairman Charles Manatt, and Reubin Askew bowed out when his mother-in-law died. At the first stop in Atlanta, Gary Hart insinuated that John Glenn was a closet Republican. Glenn, meanwhile, suggested that Walter Mondale was a big-spending liberal. In Chicago, Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak...
...town, you are the revolution," he warned them one evening last week. "Be polite. Ask permission before entering a house." But as soon as the leader departed for his camp deep in the nearby hills, the youths slung their M-16s over their shoulders and hauled out a tape deck. "The best beaches have just been liberated," exulted a young guerrilla while strutting to a Billy Joel tune. "There won't be a problem about where to spend this weekend...
...bonuses for the hazardous duty. Special security measures are also in force. Ships en route to Bandar-Khomeini, deep within the war zone, have been ordered to travel only in convoys. Lifeboats are kept half lowered, and special teams of Iranian soldiers armed with antiaircraft weapons stand guard on deck. But those safeguards are of little help against guided-missile attacks. In addition to the sophisticated Exocet, Iraq has an arsenal of French-made AS. 11 and AS. 12 missiles that are more than a match for freighter hulls...
Jamie turned off the tape deck and the engine, and everyone stopped talking and we were in New Haven. Conn., at four o'clock in the morning with eight cans of spray paint and a few beers and my brother's car. And it was time...
...night at Blodgett Pool was especially frustrating for the Crimson's senior Co-Captains Dave Fasi and Steve Munatones, who were playing in their last home game. The duo, the two leading scorers in Harvard history, had to watch the final minute of the game together on the pool deck after Fasi was thrown out of the contest and Muntones fouled...