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...Visitors who wait till they're in the city's elegant subway system are also reduced to toe-tapping: "There are no public rest rooms, and there haven't been as long as I've been here," an employee declares indignantly, when a patron begins to beg. A Metro spokesman avers that rest rooms would be an invitation to "crime, vandalism and all kinds of other things you wouldn't want to discuss in mixed company...
...Harvard Rugby Football Club opened its Metro Region schedule successfully, defeating Boston College, 13-9, Saturday at Soldiers Field...
...Crimson (1-1 overall, 1-0 Metro Region), coming off a season-opening loss to Army last weekend, broke a 9-9 tie with less than five minutes remaining in the contest...
...June 19 for the annual economic summit with the other leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations: Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Japan's Noboru Takeshita, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, France's Franois Mitterrand, Italy's Ciriaco De Mita and the host, Canada's Brian Mulroney. Inside the Metro Toronto Convention Center, the leaders will discuss such major problems as trade imbalances, protectionism and Third World debt...
Just 14 seconds after Northwest Airlines Flight 255 took off from Detroit's Metro Airport last Aug. 16, it crashed into a highway embankment, killing 156 people. Last week the National Transportation Safety Board said "overwhelming evidence" points to pilot error as the cause of the accident. The agency said Captain John Maus and First Officer David Dodds skipped critical parts of their preflight routine and neglected to set the wing flaps to provide enough lift for takeoff. But the Air Line Pilots Association argued that the board gave insufficient weight to the fact that the alarm system...