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...comes as a surprise to see photos of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite National Park used in ads tout ing Rockwell International's weapons systems. But critics are outraged that the photos are classic works by the late Ansel Adams, an ardent environmentalist who opposed the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In one of the ads, which have appeared in leading aerospace trade journals, Rockwell declared that its B-1B bomber was an "American asset" like the Sierra Nevada...
With such friends, who needs enemies? That was the question that dogged left- lean- ing Irish Opposition Leader Charles Haughey last week after Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi told Irish television viewers that he hoped Haughey would win next year's general election. Gaddafi's remarks were seen as a boost for Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's flagging coalition, which trails in the polls...
...sore point in relations between the Harvard administration and students. The Foundation was created in response to this demand, and its original charter does speak of a "Junior Common Room space" for minority student organizations. Last year's Eck Report acknowledges the problem of space for minority groups, "urg(ing) the University to consider ways in which this concern might...
...first slide to beach himself on home plate. It was hard to call that run unearned, but Mets errors had started again. Even though Red Sox Lefthander Bruce Hurst won his second sterling game, the first home crowd with anything to shout about gave its fullest voice to ridicul- ing the feeble bat and careless glove of New York's young outfielder Darryl Strawberry. He may answer for a while to raspberry...
Looking at old videotapes of early Talk- ing Heads performances, Byrne now says he recognizes "how really strange we were. A lot of it was my lack of confidence and technical ability as a performer and a musician. We were an alternative to a lot of the overblown pop music that was around then, but it wasn't as simple as what I described. The music had this disturbing hue to it." Heads fans of long-standing will notice the difference, say, between an early song about America called The Big Country, with its disaffected chorus ("I wouldn't live...