Word: east
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William and Mary is expected to represent the East in the NCAA tournament later this month. William and Mary defeated the Crimson, 5-4, in late February...
...first time in recent memory that a non-Ivy team represented the East...
...first multiparty system. Last week Solidarity backed a preliminary slate of twelve candidates, including a film idol, a schoolteacher and a former political prisoner, to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June. If successful, Poland's experiment could set an example to be followed by other reform-minded East bloc countries and prompt a further warming in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...shows in amusing detail, is that it was the only art movement ever launched by a mass- circulation magazine. Regionalism's promoter was a small-time Kansas-born art dealer named Maynard Walker, who sensed that the resentments of America, battered by the Depression and bitterly suspicious of the East, could be harnessed in the field of art. Cultural populism would sell, he demonstrated, provided it were shown welling up from the undefiled American heartland...
...information is, we don't really know what they're talking about," said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Said former CIA Director Richard Helms, Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976: "If it's true, it's a shame they got caught." At the Brookings Institution, Middle East specialist Yahya Sadowski speculated that Rafsanjani might be using the cry of spies as a way to divert attention from his own political problems...