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...station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and Khanaqin, a town northeast of Baghdad...
Molotov's name was actually a pseudonym derived from the Russian word molot (hammer). He was born on March 9, 1890, into the Scriabin family, shopkeepers in the provincial town of Kukarka, northeast of Moscow (in what is now the Kirov region), a way station on the long road to Siberia. Young Scriabin chose the nom de guerre Molotov when he entered the revolutionary underground. While still a student in a czarist secondary school, he joined in the abortive 1905 revolution. Molotov helped start up the Communist Party newspaper Pravda and was an organizer of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...smiling, all the way to national politics. Idea number one here is that the Dukakis for President campaign is off and running. Kitty said as much on election night. If Mario Cuomo does not watch out, he will soon be Number 2 among putative national candidates from the Northeast...
Harvard's chances of receiving a bid were reduced after the team's tie with Brown Saturday, which cost the Crimson a share in the Ivy league title. The league champion Bruins received an at-large bid, as did the University of Connecticut. The Northeast regional bid was awarded to the University of Massachusetts as expected...
...remembers enough to talk about one ghost who used to lurk at the northeast corner of University Hall. Since the old pine tree there was cut down two years ago, the ghost has not been seen...