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Tens of thousands of marchers pressing for the free emigration of Soviet Jews beseeched Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "let our people go" yesterday in the largest demonstration planned for this week's superpower summit...
...health, Hutton's stock slumped from a high of 44 7/8 last January to as low as 11 on the day after the October market crash. Last week the eroding confidence in the company and an expected downgrading of its credit rating forced the parent company of the tenth largest U.S. retail brokerage to take a - humbling step: inviting a takeover or dismemberment that would end its 83 years of feisty independence...
...spectacle of empty train stations and streets piled high with uncollected garbage belied the country's proud status as the world's fifth largest economy -- which Italy claims to have achieved after overtaking Britain. Indeed, the heady optimism of just a year ago has been dampened by plummeting exports, rising inflation (currently an annual 5.3%) and the threat of a return to the political instability of the past...
...Crimson's home opener last night, Boston College demolished the Harvard men's basketball team, 121-80, in front of 1800 fans at Briggs Cage. The shellacking dropped the cagers' record to 1-2, and was the largest point total ever given up by the Crimson...
...More than a decade ago, there was a warming in U.S.-Soviet affairs that we called `detente.' But while talking friendship, the Soviets worked even faster on the largest military buildup in world history. They stepped up their aggression around the world. They became more repressive at home. We do not want mere words. This time we're after true peace," Reagan said...