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...raised more questions about the challenger's qualifications for the U.S. Senate. Worse, his charges turned out to be inaccurate and misleading, and even prominent Republican politicians and editorials turned against him. Sasser now mentions Beard's campaign excesses only to ridicule them. Sasser emphasizes economic issues, offering a five-point economic stimulation package...
Currier, however, placed in the top five in all divisions. Their performance, when combined with an overpowering performance in other spring sports, should probably increase the five-point margin that separated the Houses at the end of the winter competition...
With only a tenuous five-point edge on Eliot House as the spring competition nears, though, Currier will have to muster a strong show of force against the traditional strength of the River Houses in crew if they are to finish first for the year...
...rise," Ortega insisted. But he called reports of American willingness to negotiate "encouraging" and added, "We are willing to begin immediately direct and frank conversations." U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick described Ortega's charges as "paranoid and ridiculous," but reiterated the U.S. commitment to negotiate. She cited a five-point U.S. plan, outlined by Enders last August in Managua, that includes a mutual nonaggression treaty and an end to Nicaraguan support of Salvadoran rebels...
Lopez Portillo's last suggestion drew a stony silence from members of Nicaragua's Sandinista directorate, who sat next to him on the speaker's platform. Directorate Member Daniel Ortega Saavedra offered Nicaragua's five-point plan for better relations with the U.S. and its Central American neighbors, including regional nonaggression pacts, joint patrols by the Hondurans and Nicaraguans of their border, and a commitment to free elections and political pluralism in Nicaragua. Washington responded politely but noncommittally to the proposals of Lopez Portillo, who later called the economic aspects of Reagan's Caribbean plan...