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Leading the resurgence is captain Paul Fenton, who missed most of last season with a knee injury. The senior from Springfield has scored four goals in B.U.'s three games, including a hat-trick against non-league foe Merrimack, as well as adding three assists. The Terriers' other big gun is Tom O'Regan, who missed the first half of last season because of discipline trouble, but came on strong in the second half and has seven points (two goals, five assists) this season...
THOUGH NO FOE of affirmative action, I find it odd that, in their effort to overcome one societal flaw, the majority overlooks another...
...zero option." Reagan announced that the U.S. would forgo plans to place 572 new medium-range missiles in Europe if the Soviets would scrap comparable nuclear missiles they have deployed against Western Europe in the past decade. That done, the number of medium-range missiles aimed by each foe at its potential enemy would indeed be zero...
John Kennedy came to office as a macho warrior. "We shall bear any burden, oppose any foe," he warned Moscow in his Inaugural Address. One night at Hickory Hill Bobby Kennedy summoned a friend into a quiet corner. With his blood rising, he confided that the Cuban exile force would hit the beach at the Bay of Pigs in a few days. Bobby could already hear the bands and taste the glory...
Politically, however, the stakes were high. Reagan was out to burnish his public image as a stalwart foe of spendthrift Government. His opponents-this time including not only most of the Democrats but some of the congressional Republicans-sought to escape being labeled "budget busters" though still appearing to defend their constituents against cuts that would hurt the poor and disadvantaged. The outcome looked like a standoff. By the weekend Reagan's phenomenal streak of congressional victories had been broken, and he was prepared to settle for spending cuts well below those he had demanded two months...