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...deficit, which Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro announced at a faculty meeting on Monday, is largely the result of a sharp drop in alumni donations, said Spies. He added that the university library's budget overrun was another major factor in this year's fiscal problems...
Even as the first contingents of Soviet soldiers moved toward the border last week, the rebels began marshaling their forces. "The mujahedin are just gobbling up territory in the eastern provinces near Pakistan," said a Western diplomat in Islamabad. By week's end the rebels had overrun dozens of military posts abandoned by the hapless Afghan army and had besieged several important provincial towns. If the insurgents can take Jalalabad, a major town along the main supply route between Kabul and Pakistan, the capital itself may eventually fall...
...that handsome devil of a network reporter, might not know the difference between Jim Bakker's sex pawn and Jessica McClure. He sure doesn't know the difference between millions and billions in a Defense Department cost-overrun story he's working on. But he knows how to shed a calculated tear on-camera during a human-interest interview. In one sense, Tom is the reverse of Bud Fox: he isn't bright, but he's smart -- smart enough to use his looks and his nice, helpful, attractive attitude to get intelligent people to push him toward stardom, so that...
Federal prisons here and in Louisiana were overrun late last month by Cuban inmates fearing deportation under a new immigration pact in which 2500 Cubans considered undesirable by the U.S. government would be returned to their homeland...
...West, thousands of weary fire fighters remain on the lines, battling a dangerous combination of flame, smoke and exhaustion. So far, at least ten people have died. In one tragic incident, a five-person "helitack" team was dropped by helicopter into a remote spot in Northern California and promptly overrun by fire before it could be rescued. The terrified team members quickly crawled into the fire-resistant shelters strapped around their waists, but 31-year-old D. Lee Cullins, of Arcata, Calif., was overcome by smoke and flames...