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When Claude Pepper died last May at 88, the tenuous harmony among Hispanics, Anglos and blacks in his Miami congressional district seemed to depart with him. Last week Republican State Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban American, won Pepper's old seat, defeating Democrat Gerald Richman 53% to 47%, after a race marked by ethnic calumny...
...talked about a commissioner with two hats. He said Giamatti was wearing his "investigator hat" when he sent the letter, not his "final decision- maker hat." In any event, Hoynes argued, baseball proceedings were less formal than legal ones, and the commissioner of this private organization was entitled to "depart from the rules of evidence if in his judgment the cause of justice will be served...
...night Seine cruises, which cost about $1,000, will depart alternately from Honfleur and Paris each week until fall. If the reactions of the first voyagers are any indication, the journey was worth the wait. "The trip has been far more than I expected," said Art Russell, a retired mechanical engineer from Vero Beach, Fla. "You see things from the boat that, from the road, are hidden." Agreed passenger Hamilton Perkins Jr.: "We've made 35 trips to Europe, and this was the best ever. It's the most beautiful countryside I've ever seen." Those wishing to follow...
...department, meanwhile, will be left with only two junior members next year when Blight leaves. One of those, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology Roderick J. Harrison '70-'71, was denied promotion to the associate level and will depart after next year...
...efforts to retain power when the last Vietnamese soldiers depart by Sept. 30 is the cooperation of Cambodia's former head of state, the wily and mercurial Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 67, who remains a powerful psychological symbol of better times. Last week, after the leaders held two days of talks in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Sihanouk indicated for the first time that he was prepared to return home as head of state without his partner in opposition, the Khmer Rouge. But the former monarch laid on a host of ifs and buts to his offer that leave his return...