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...brand of eager and enterprising informality was well suited to his birthplace. He not only silenced his detractors but also charmed an impressive number of high-level Brazilians, all in fluent Portuguese. Sometimes driving out to the country in his pickup for drinks with Brazil's President João Baptista Figueiredo, he was instrumental in arranging state visits between Figueiredo and Reagan...
...from the opposing corner, Dartmouth Coach Jo Ann Harper--who expressed disappointment in the Crimson's 14-goal margin of victory--found solace in the fact that her squad's defeat came at the hands of such a strong Harvard team. "Harvard is excellent," she said. "They can compete with any body in the nation. We have nothing to be disappointed about...
Dartmouth women's lacrosse Coach Jo Ann Harper says it'll take an "incredible performance" for her squad--the 1983 women's lacrosse Cinderella story--to wrest the Ivy championship from a far more talented Harvard squad this afternoon at Soldier's Field. If there's any team that's capable, however, it's the storybook squad from Hanover...
...played by Monnen, becomes Pinafore's handsome young hero, Ralph Rackstraw. Crowley assumes another leadership position as the ship's Captain Corcoran, and a newcomer to the evening's spectacle, Sebastian Knowles, plays the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. All three men, along with Craig Bierko as Dick Deadeye and Jo Milroy as Little Buttercup, give the evening's most superb performances. Crowley successively displays the Captain's frustrations in trying to convince his daughter Josephine (Nancy Fatzick) to marry Sir Joseph. Countering the Captain's well-meaning intentions, the lowly seaman hero Ralph Rackstraw falls passionately in love with Josephine...
Montoro's supporters blamed a handful of left-wing agitators for the violence. They are afraid that the central government, which is still led by the military, will use the incident as a pretext to intervene in local affairs. President João Baptista Figueiredo, a former cavalry general who has promised a slow and gradual return of democratic freedom to Brazil by 1985, ordered units of the Brazilian army in Sāo Paulo on alert last week. But he let it be known through an official spokesman that it was the state government's responsibility...