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Royer said last year's general pool of more than 2000 applicants included 500 Black women, while almost a quarter of the 500 students in last year's freshman class identified themselves as minorities. Of these, the largest percentage was Asian, the next largest was Black, and the smallest was Hispanic, she said...
...French and British ships are part of an international flotilla building up inside and outside the Persian Gulf that totals about 80 vessels--the largest such naval gathering since the Korean War. About six Soviet warships are also in the area...
...ites are the largest of Lebanon's principal religious groups, with a population of more than 1 million. They are also the poorest and politically the most unstable. Founded in 1975, Amal quickly became the main Shi'ite political movement. One of its aims has been to wrest a more equitable share of power from the Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims, who have divided most of the political spoils since Lebanon became independent of French rule in 1943. In recent months, however, Amal has lost ground within the Shi'ite community to the radical Hizballah (Party of God). Hizballah...
Five years ago the sport was almost unknown. Today boards cost from $150 to $400, and Burton Snowboards in Manchester Center, Vt., the largest manufacturer, claims its sales have doubled during each of the past four years...
...Opere di Religione, commonly known as the Vatican Bank, may not make that claim so confidently in the future. Last week a Milan judge named Marcinkus in an arrest warrant as an "accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy" in connection with the 1982 collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private banking group...