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...start five other of the squads skippers in a major competition. One of the five is Bryan's brother John Kean 83, whose performance in the Atlantic Coast Championships was the key to the Crimson victory over schools all along the eastern seaboard, closing the fall season with a flourish Horn also singles out as stars senior Craig Shank and Dave Woolsey and juniors Ethan Berkowitz and Hollis French...
...Cuba's orbit by pulling on its economic bootstraps is rooted in what the President likes to call the "magic of the marketplace." Said he: "It is an integrated program that helps our neighbors help themselves, under which creativity and private entrepreneurship and self-help can flourish." The "centerpiece" is a twelve-year exemption from tariffs on exports to the U.S., the first such trading advantage to be given to any region. Although 87% of U.S. imports from the basin are already duty-free, Reagan hopes that extending free trade will spawn new industries not currently covered by preferences...
...defendant to a different "dreamer," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The state, Welcome said, had succeeded only in tarnishing the young man's reputation. She pleaded: "In this nation, you do not convict a person of murder or anything else by soiling him." In a final flourish, she placed a tiny thimble on the jury box rail. Said she disparagingly of the prosecution's presentation: "I leave this with you-a thimbleful of evidence, which is not enough for conviction...
...killed istantly. Ninety percent of the survivors elsewhere require immediate attention for severe burns. But because most hospitals have been destroyed an most health workers are dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases flourish in the absence of any public sanitation or health care. Since transportation, water, food, and housing are virtually non-existent, community spirit and public order vanish in the scramble among traumatized survivors for what is left...
...deeper into an open-ended military commitment to a losing cause. So far, the Administration has done little to back up its most important contention, namely that the real U.S. aim in El Salvador is not a military victory but the political and economic framework needed for democracy to flourish in a strife-torn and bitterly impoverished region...