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Started in 1977 as an offshoot of the Center for Lifelong Learning, the HILR has grown from an original 93 students to nearly 400 this semester. Although the largest, block of HILR students is made up of men and women formerly involved with education at some level, professions as varied as archaeology, dentistry, oceanography, and philosophy are represented in the program...
...that had become an uprising. Once again, hundreds of thousands of protesting citizens poured into the streets of major cities in a concerted effort to bring down the tottering government of the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party (B.S.P.P.). To a large extent they had already succeeded. Burma's second largest city, Mandalay, was under the control of Buddhist monks: saffron-robed holy men, known as sanghas, were directing traffic. In Rangoon, the capital, the entire civil service had deserted the government. A new opposition leadership was working with students and monks to bring rice into the increasingly hungry city...
...buying such boaty vehicles because gasoline is relatively cheap, and GM and Ford are determined to satisfy the demand. Even though the cars are more fuel efficient than comparably sized models of the 1960s and early '70s, their tendency to guzzle gas is causing headaches for the two largest U.S. automakers. Last week GM and Ford executives urged federal regulators to modify a fuel-economy law, passed in the energy-crisis year of 1975, that would require 1989 fleets to get an average of 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26 m.p.g. this year. GM is asking for a smaller increase...
...their feud will come in the Japanese sport of judo, where Korean and Japanese judoka should fight it out for the gold in three events. One Japanese, Shinji Hosokawa, came out of retirement specifically to face his Korean nemesis, Kim Jae Yup. To make matters even more interesting, the largest group of foreigners at the Games is, of course, from Japan -- eager, no doubt, to see how often Nippon can score an ippon...
Smellie and Mitchell run behind one of the largest offensive lines in the state. All-Yankee guard Paul Mayberry (6-ft., 2-in., 265-lbs.), a sophomore, guard Bill Buttler (6-ft., 250-lbs.) and tackle Nick Salmon (6-ft., 2-in., 270-lbs.) are all experienced linemen...