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...provisional President. The right, it was assumed, would also agree to give the Christian Democrats some role in the assembly leadership. But when headlines proclaiming Magana's imminent election appeared in the afternoon paper, D'Aubuisson reportedly became furious and rearranged the list of candidates for the nine-man assembly directorate to exclude all Christian Democrats. When the vote took place, D'Aubuisson and his fellow rightists easily swept all the assembly posts. Said ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli defiantly: "We did this today to show the United States embassy that they are not going to tell...
...offensive, called the Hughes briefing, a bit redundantly, a case of "excessive hysteria"; he noted that the airport expansion program was actually begun by Somoza at U.S. insistence. They justified the military buildup as necessary in the face of American belligerency. Said Bayardo Arce, a member of the Sandinista nine-man national directorate: "Your leaders are forcing us to take dramatic measures. We expect an invasion any day. Look at these declarations of Haig! After words might come action...
...much of the season the Tigers had been favored to take this year's edition of the rivalry and the almost automatic nine-man national championship that goes with it. But after his squad beat Army 9-0 late in December, Harvard coach Dave Fish felt confident enough to claim that after looking up at Princeton all season. "We can now look them eye-to-eye." Army coach Paul Assaiante echoed Fish: "Princeton's pretty lough, but on racket skills, Harvard's probably better...
...time being, Poland is run by an eight-or nine-man group under Jaruzelski's leadership. It includes four other army generals plus Politburo Members Barcikowski and Stefan Olszowski, a leading hardliner. Another prominent civilian member is Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, a liberal by party standards who nonetheless endorsed the crackdown...
...swordsmen displayed impressive depth throughout the meet with three members of the nine-man team going 2-1 and another three--captain and lead epeeman Bill Marshall, epeeman Steve Kauffer, and all-American sabreman David Hevman--turning in perfect 3-0 scores...