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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incoming freshmen Nick Gianuzzi, John Rabin and Fuad Ombargi plan to join the squad this week, while upperclassmen Nicholas Branca, Kyle Enright, Andy Freed, Eric Bentley, David Mandell and Andy Goldfarb--none of whom played last season--will also shoot to make the team during the preseason practice...
...reliable reports, was most assuredly not. Declared U.S. News Chairman Mortimer Zuckerman, who immediately flew to Moscow: "Daniloff is no more a spy than Gidget." Added Daniloff's angry wife Ruth, after visiting him in prison: "The whole thing is an outrage and a complete and absolute frame-up. Nick is, basically, a hostage...
...swap might not be worth considering after all. So did the State Department, but only after its boss spoke up. "Let there be no talk of a trade for Daniloff," Secretary of State Shultz declared in his speech during Harvard's 350th-anniversary celebrations on Friday. "We, and Nick himself, have ruled that out." Calling the arrest of the magazine correspondent an "outrage," Shultz said it "showed the dark - side of a society prepared to resort to hostage taking as an instrument of policy...
...time he was 16, he made it to Houston, where he "slept on anybody's couch until I wore out my welcome." He hooked up with his uncle Nick Fain, who had lived with the family for a while and taught his nephew the rudiments of six-string rock guitar. "He was only five years older than I was," Earle says. "He was my hero." A friendship with Townes Van Zandt started Earle down the folk-music trail, where he eventually landed jobs on the coffeehouse circuit. "There was lots of noise and smoke. I became the world's loudest...
...also said that U.S. reporters in Iron Curtain countries always have to be on guard, and that Daniloff is a very experienced Moscow reporter. "He's a real old hand," she said. "You always have to be sifting, always judging character, but Nick has a real savvy sense. And he's built up a lot of contacts," she added...