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Watson an All-American at a freshman last year, won the men's one-mans competition to become one of the Northeast's but representatives at the Nationals. Watson';s score of 511-40 gave him a 42 point lost over the second place finisher...
...after the defeat of Jimmy Carter seems surprising. But the face and constituency of the Democratic Party are changing with the withdrawal of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D. Mass.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) and former Vice President Walter Mondale are the only candidates from the traditional industrial Northeast and Midwest party base Historically, the South has been the other base of the party, dutifully casting its electoral votes in the Democratic column in most Presidential elections. (The exceptions were 1964, when most of the Deep South voted for Gold water, and the Nixon and Reagan landslides...
...worst violence apparently took place near the town of Nellie, in a rice-growing area 34 miles northeast of Gauhati. There, Lalung tribesmen wielding machetes, bamboo spears and poisoned arrows massacred more than 1,000 Muslim Bengalis. The warriors swarmed through 17 villages along a stretch of the Brahmaputra River. They herded all those who were unable to flee, mostly women and children, toward a larger ambush party waiting by the river, where the Bengalis were brutally slaughtered. In one village, the bodies of children were arranged in two rows in the sunbaked rice fields while survivors dug mass graves...
...Guillén's parents subsequently sought refuge in the Venezuelan embassy. In an exclusive interview with Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth, Guillén detailed the secret jails, torture methods and unprosecuted murders committed by the Sandinistas, including the systematic killing of Miskito Indians in the northeast department of Zelaya. Guillen's account...
...well. So the homeless make do as best they can--in the sprawling "Tent City" outside of Houston, under freeway passes in Southern California, in overcrowded church-run shelters. They are like latter-day Okies, but in reverse. Overwhelmingly, today's unemployed drifters come from the industrial Midwest and Northeast; that is, from a part of the country where another factory is shut down just about every...