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...last five years alone, Crimson eights have claimed national titles three times, in '83, '85, and '87. Eastern Sprints crowns in '83 and '85, and a victory in the grandaddy of 'em all--the Henley Regatta Grand Challenge Cup--in '85 are evidence that the Harvard heavyweight program is consistently producing top-flight crews...
...fact that the same Republican voters who stampeded to Reagan's banner of radical reform now embrace Bush as the rightful heir speaks loudly about the complacent state of the Grand Old Party. Says Ed Rollins, an alumnus of the Reagan White House who chaired Kemp's campaign: "The kinds of conservatives who were Reagan rebels in 1976 and 1980 have become comfortable with being part of the Establishment. Bush has done a good job persuading these people that he'll protect the Reagan agenda and that they can trust...
...seemed, did anyone else, including the U.S. Despite the halfhearted efforts of many middle-class Panamanians to oust him and the maneuverings by U.S. officials, there were no signs that General Manuel Antonio Noriega had lost control. After Noriega was indicted on drug- trafficking charges by two U.S. grand juries last month, President Eric Arturo Delvalle sacked him as head of the 16,000-member Panama Defense Forces; the general simply turned around and had the National Assembly dump Delvalle, replacing him with Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma. Now Noriega faces a stiffer test: a rapidly worsening cash crunch that...
...refused to consider dropping the charges against Noriega. A dismissal would require Ronald Reagan's signature, and the Administration is afraid of sending the wrong signal just as its antidrug campaign is developing fresh momentum. The Government continued to crack down on drug traffickers last week, when a federal grand jury in Miami indicted Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, the powerful commander of Haiti's largest military garrison. The indictment charged Paul with allowing cocaine smugglers to use an airstrip on his farm to fly drugs to the U.S. He is unlikely to be brought to trial, however, since...
There were no grand themes, no cutting issues, no electric enthusiasm for any candidate save Jackson and his over-the-rainbow dreams. Rather than a Democratic referendum, the Super Tuesday primaries turned out to be little more than a multiple-choice exam in which voters chose their favorite 30- second TV spots. Both Dukakis and Gore invested heavily in negative ads to define themselves in opposition to the pseudo populism of Richard Gephardt. The get-Gephardt pincer attack worked: the Missouri Congressman carried only his home state and faded from contention. While Dukakis, Gore and Jackson all had ample reason...