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COSCORD. NH--Edger Berube, a former president of the New England College Student Senate, entered no plea yesterday at his arraignment on three charges of forging cheecks and one count of theft of services...
...plea from Argentina's military rulers was a strange one, and bore signs of more than a little desperation. In a discreet radio and television announcement, the junta that has ruled the country since 1976 urged Argentine civilians to show "greatness of spirit," "patriotism" and "definitive national unity." Then the military government itemized a list of 15 topics on which it would like to see concertación (understanding) with local politicians, union leaders and perhaps even the Roman Catholic Church before the government fulfills a promise to return the nation to civilian rule in March 1984. The list...
...newsletter that reaches emergency room staffs in 1,000 hospitals. Then, with lobbying assistance from Senator Edward Kennedy, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, all of whom he contacted, Fiske persuaded the American Academy of Pediatrics to allow him to make a plea before 1,000 academy members at their annual meeting in New York City. "I ask you to keep your eyes and ears open for the possibility of a donor," urged Fiske, the only layman ever to address the group. "Jamie wants to survive...
...tactic worked. Fiske's plea was covered by all three networks and newspapers across the country. The families of some 500 would-be donors phoned the University of Minnesota Hospital, where Jamie lay waiting. Two offers turned out to be useful. One, a liver from a three-year-old on the East Coast, was not suitable for Jamie, but it saved the life of an older transplant patient at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The second organ came from a ten-month-old boy killed in a car-train collision in Utah. His father, Laird Bellon...
...decision from all sides. A representative of a group called Solidarity International of Connecticut Inc. called it a "slap in the face," and criticized Giamatti for not allowing the singers to "lift a finger in support of that embattled and impoverished nation." Columnist William F. Buckley criticized Giamatti's plea that the University not speak out on political issues. "Perhaps a glee club representing a university less fastidious than Yale will...risk its reputation by siding with the men and women of Poland," he wrote in a syndicated column last week...