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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard coach Bruce Munro said the decision would greatly affect the Crimson's chances in the playoffs. "Injuries are the key," he said. "We'll have only a few days to recuperate from bruises while the opposition will have a whole week...
...achieve his revolutionary aims. This breaks with his religious ideology--Rastafarianism--which usually extolls pacifism. Marley is a Rasta, a sect whose members believe they are the real lost tribes of Israel, and who revere Haile Selassie, former Ethiopian emporer, as their God. They smoke ganja ritually as a key part of their religion. Rastafarians have always been a peaceful folk. Marley's decision to endorse violence despite his Rastafarian commitment indicates how desperate he thinks the situation has grown in Jamaica...
...were willing to express comparable confidence about the country's political future. The question of succession was still unanswered. Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...
...deep schisms within the party. Though none of the faction chiefs personally accepted positions, Ohira was forced to pass over many of his closest allies in handing out the portfolios; 15 of his 20 ministers are in their first Cabinet jobs. He has also agreed to give some key party positions, including the post of secretary-general, to members of rival factions. Despite these fence-mending efforts, the party's wounds are far from healed. Vowed Fukuda: "The first round is over, but the second has just begun...
...week's agenda did not include such burning Roman Catholic issues as celibacy and doctrinal dissent. It was a practical plea for help from the church's center to key prelates around the world. The two prime topics: how to solve a financial crisis at the Vatican; and how to improve the Byzantine operations of the Curia, the world's oldest bureaucracy, which came in for implicit criticism during last year's papal elections...