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...think we were all a little nervous at the beginning," noted Crimson Tri-Captain Dinny Starr. The Cantabs not only were skating in front of the largest home crowd of the year (164), but also were hoping to avenge an early-season 8-1 loss to the Huskies...
...government is unlikely to disclose what secrets were compromised. But in his position close to the Prime Minister's office, Kher would have had access to all the secret files concerning defense, foreign policy, nuclear power and the entire range of official activity. The Hindustan Times, New Delhi's largest English-language daily, reported that documents handed over to foreign agents from the Defense Ministry "staggered the imagination of investigating officials." Said a senior investigator: "The security system and our vital papers have been stripped clean...
...listeners were participating in the March for Life, held each Jan. 22 to mark the Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Some 70,000 people turned out, the largest number to date and double the size of last year's rally. For the first time, the protest included acts of civil disobedience: 28 people were arrested for picketing without a permit on the steps of the Supreme Court...
...supplying about $200 million in aid this fiscal year to Sudan, Washington's second-largest program of foreign assistance in Africa, after Egypt. In addition, partly to cope with the refugee crisis, Washington is donating at least another $60 million in emergency aid. But most of that will have to be used to feed hungry Sudanese. Says Amala Hussein, the mother of six from the drought-stricken region of Northern Kordofan: "In our area there is only hunger and thirst now. In the summer our goats, sheep and camels were all dying from lack of grass...
Such forecasts reflect bullish signs on the economic front. The Federal Government reported last week that business activity was healthier in 1984 than at any other time in recent memory. The gross national product grew 6.8% during the year, for the largest increase since 1951. Inflation, meanwhile, was just 3.7% for the year as a whole, the lowest since 1967. Said Jones: "We may be entering a new golden age similar to the 1960s, when we had both low inflation and solid growth...