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Another factor in ARENA's favor was a leadership change. In 1985 former Army Intelligence Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, linked by Duarte and the U.S. to the death squads, quit as party president under pressure from Washington. But he remains a key figure in ARENA, and he drew large enthusiastic crowds at campaign rallies. D'Aubuisson's successor is Alfredo Cristiani, a graduate of Washington's Georgetown University and scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. His soft-spoken approach evidently convinced some Salvadorans that the party had moderated its views, and many were further swayed by ARENA's slick...
Princeton, which many experts expected to be a middle-of-the-pack Ivy team this season, defeated Big East power Seton Hall earlier this year. Cornell returns a number of key players from last year's second-place squad. Even Columbia, which was picked to finish near the bottom of the division, held a lead at halftime against national-power Wyoming...
That flimsy shred of optimism hardly disguises the fact that the Administration's plan is foundering, and one of the principal reasons for this is Shamir's obdurate opposition to key provisions of the initiative. While neither Israeli nor Arab leaders have officially rejected the proposal, positions on both sides have hardened as the 3 1/2-month-old struggle between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces has escalated in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The plan, as set forth by Secretary of State George Shultz, calls for an international conference on the Middle East, to be held this spring...
...Mamelodi, it was overshadowed by conflict. The executions of five black men and a black woman were stayed for at least one month by the Supreme Court only 15 hours before the hangings were to take place. The court said there was new evidence of possible perjury by a key state witness in the case of the so-called Sharpeville Six. The six were convicted in connection with the 1984 killing of a councilman in the black township of Sharpeville, even though they were not found to have had a direct role in the slaying but only to have been...
...addition to a slew of new players, the squad returns several key veterans which gives the squad such bright optimism...