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This time, by golly, no one would call George Bush timid. Quite the contrary, the President made a rare appearance as Bush the riverboat gambler. By sending a high-level delegation to Beijing to confer with Chinese authorities who only six months earlier had ordered the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, Bush knew he would stir up a hurricane of outraged protest. And for what? The slender chance that China would respond with concessions that could begin to melt the ice in U.S. relations with the world's most populous nation...
...plagued sophomore Fraiberg, who was ranked in Canada'a top 10 in 1988. Fellow classmate and number-two seed, Johnny Kaye was a three-time top-ranked player in Israel. Farokh Pandole, after twice winning the Indian Junior Nationals, quickly adapted to hard-ball squash last year to climb high on the ladder. And speaking of rapid adjustments, sophomore Mark Baker, a transfer student from England, adjusted to American squash faster than a rolling "O" to secure the number-one seed...
Sophomore Ed Rios and junior John Brzezinski spark Harvard in the field events. Rios soars in the high jump and runs the 55-meter hurdles...
Score points is exactly what Rios did against Boston College, jumping to a personal high, 6 ft., 8 in., and finishing second...
None of the reports of high death tolls could be confirmed...