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...what they hope is a guerrilla-proof village. To the athletes checking in last week, initial impressions were unnerving: an 8-ft.-high chain-link fence surrounding the compound, electronically wired to set off an alarm at the slightest touch; a main gate guarded by submachine guns; and a gauntlet of identity checks by sentries, who bark at athletes, "Show me your pass." Says Italian Figure Skater Susan Driano: "I was shocked when I arrived. It looks like a P.O.W. camp." Go a few steps inside the bleak main gate and the mood changes dramatically. There is dancing nightly...
...that some people will see the presence of the SAS as an anti-Catholic move unless soldiers are also sent in against Protestant terrorists. One clear danger was that the action will not intimidate the I.R.A. so much as inspire it to renewed violence. "Has Wilson thrown down the gauntlet to the I.R.A.?" asked Seamus Loughran, a Belfast organizer for the pro-I.R.A. Sinn Fein Party. "If so, he has made a terrible mistake...
Hate to. But I can't run that press gauntlet...
...large measure, this new wave of campaign activism is being carried out by and on behalf of the Convention '75 candidates, who, despite the "every-man-for-himself" nature of school committee race, have banded together and under a "progressive" banner, collectively hurled down the gauntlet to their nine Independent opponents. The formation of the Convention '75 slate, then, killed two birds with one stone--in addition to allowing the seven endorsed candidates to enjoy the economy and mutual support afforded by pooled resources, it also eliminated once and for all the charade of a "non-partisan" campaign. Political lines...
...organizations I wanted to join, that seemed most seductive as I ran the gauntlet of freshman registration, was the Society for Creative Anachronism. I was attracted by the idea of taking a temporal holiday from Harvard and relaxing in the gentler, less-pressured days of the thirteenth century, when there were no pre-meds or pushy freshman advisers. That was before I saw their first meeting. They were really hitting each other, batting each other over the head with baseball bats and similar instruments of not-so-medieval mayhem. One of them, I saw, got a bloody ear. Instead...