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Shelter has been searching since November for a suitable building for a new operation for which it has obtained funding. The search has been fruitless thus far--made more difficult by Cambridge's zoning ordinance, which limits the number of community residences allowed in any one of the city's 10 neighborhoods...
Much of the blame for the guerrillas' success is placed on Salvadoran Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia. Ignoring U.S. military advice, Garcia has wasted the energies of the 22,000-man Salvadoran army on massive and fruitless sweep operations in the hinterlands, while allowing the guerrillas to exercise their mobility fully in economic sabotage and spectacular urban takeovers. Says a Western military analyst in El Salvador: "There has to be a complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole...
Kohl now faces a growing fear among West Germans that U.S.-Soviet arms talks will prove fruitless, making deployment of the U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles all but certain. According to a recent poll, 54% of Kohl's Christian Democratic supporters favor some kind of postponement in deploying the weapons, as do 65% of Social Democrats and 70% of Free Democratic voters. As a result, many West Germans are calling for an "interim solution" that would trim the number of missiles on both sides or put off deployment while talks continue. Kohl has rejected any compromise, arguing...
Cornell had put a press in the backcourt on the inbounds pass with 6:43 left in the game. Harvard then began what seemed like an end less series of fruitless trips down the court Meanwhile, the Big Red began to feed leading scorer Rhonda Anderson inside Cornell tallied 10 more points, bringing the squad to within striking distance...
...search for their roots and origins; we Mexicans search for ways to modernize our country and open it to the future. The history of Mexico since the end of the 18th century has been the struggle for modernization. It is a struggle that has been frequently tragic and often fruitless. To ignore this is to ignore what is Mexico today, with its economic vicissitudes and the continuous zigzag of its political system...