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...University of New York and an impassioned leader of the successful drive for open admissions there. He left that post to become president of Georgetown University in Washington, presiding over the growth of the endowment from some $30 million to nearly $250 million. He is obviously a bricks-and-mortar man with formidable fund-raising smarts...
Joan Brown exaggerated gesturalism and surface texture by troweling mortar- thick layers of paint on canvas. Her exuberant, gloppy subjects ranged from youthful nudes (Girls in the Surf with Moon Casting a Shadow, 1962) to kitchen appliances (Refrigerator Painting, 1964) and the goofy, squinting face of her pet dog (Models with Manuel's Sculpture, 1961). In Brown's anything-goes color schemes, brooding burgundies, hot pinks and Velveeta-cheese yellows oozed from the canvas with gooey gusto. In drawings on paper, she even collaged strips of fake fur. McGaw produced more straightforward self-portraits and still lifes, while sculptor Neri...
...members of an elite special-forces unit. On Friday, as Pentagon briefers asserted that organized resistance in Panama City had faded, Noriega loyalists opened fire on the car of newly installed First Vice President Ricardo Arias Calderon as it sped away from the National Assembly building. Arias was unhurt. Mortar shells landed near the U.S. Southern Command Headquarters at Quarry Heights, and fighting erupted at a nearby police station. Thurman said that the fighting seemed to be "centrally controlled" and that Noriega himself might be "the guiding force." He estimated that 1,800 irregular troops might be involved...
...sounds of battle soon erupted again, this time mortar and grenade explosions and gunfire from forces loyal to Noriega. The firefight claimed the lives of ten rebels and wounded 18 loyalist troops and five civilians. By 2 that afternoon, Noriega's supporters were rounding up the last of the rebels. It was all over but the pompous pronouncements in Panama -- and the recriminations in Washington...
...Marines die during a five-hour rocket and mortar barrage by Shi'ite militiamen...