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...tear gas and burning rubber, the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria could have passed for one of the fortified city-states that made up Italy before the nation was unified 100 years ago. For most of the week, towering barricades of tree trunks, paving stones and junk sealed the city off from the outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that had styled itself an independent "republic"; they were...
...like suing Governor Reagan," says one A.B.A. representative, "there's a tremendous amount of political pressure. A regional OEO director can't resist it the way an attorney can. And when a legal program has to start giving in to political pressure, you might just as well junk the whole program...
...more than 100 futile attempts have been made to junk the Electoral College. When the Senate last week tried for the second time in three weeks to quash a mild filibuster against the proposed amendment, it fell five votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority...
Recently it was discovered on a city junk pile, with "part of the bottom converted into a refrigerator." Mrs. Catto told embarrassed officials that the city had been given the statue to be a source of pleasure, not pain, and the Cattos would pay the necessary $6,000 to have it restored...
...know this because he's always doing nice things for people. Take freshmen. When the current junior and senior classes were freshmen, most of the junk mail they received from Harvard before they arrived in Cambridge was invitations to join the various branches of ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps, a government-sponsored military training program which used to be offered for course credit at this University; the remains of its former headquarters can be observed up Francis Avenue, along with the remains of the Harvard Faculty still residing in Cambridge...