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...Soviet advisers in Nicaragua "intolerable," Gorbachev insisted that the U.S.S.R. was bound by its constitution to aid "wars of national liberation." Disavowing imperialist ambitions, he went on, "We have no commercial interests or desire for bases. We are just helping people achieve freedom." The Soviets, he added, in a dig at Reagan for supporting anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, "do not export counterrevolution." Moscow's sponsorship of regimes in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Kampuchea was no different from Washington's support of governments in its own "areas of vital interest," like El Salvador. Reagan dryly retorted that, unlike...
...right to work sandhogging for 75¢ a day plus three hots and a cot. He soon discovers that he is restricted to the construction camp because the nearby Hudson River town of Beacon, N.Y., does not want muddy foreigners on its streets. Later Morrisons dig water tunnels in the Bronx. Owney's granduncle Jack stays above ground to work as a messenger for an influential Irish lawyer. One of Jack's jobs is to deliver expense money to William Butler Yeats, then staying at the attorney's (would you believe?) 30-room Manhattan apartment. Jack has sticky fingers; he usually...
...shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron?two verses added by the English poet to his "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte." With so few visitors, director Imtiaz Ahmad will dig out his most precious pieces for you to peruse over chai and spicy chips. "The academic traditions of this city will endure," he says. "They are weakened, but not lost." It's almost enough to restore your faith in Bihar...
...shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron - two verses added by the English poet to his "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte." With so few visitors, director Imtiaz Ahmad will dig out his most precious pieces for you to peruse over chai and spicy chips. "The academic traditions of this city will endure," he says. "They are weakened, but not lost." It's almost enough to restore your faith in Bihar...
...outdoor Heptagonal Championships, the Crimson could not muster enough to dig itself out of the bottom rung of the Ivy League, as both teams finished eighth in the final conference meet of the year...