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...Boston College in the consolation game of the Beanpot Tournament. Despite the loss--which came when B.C. forward Ken Hodge flipped in a shot from the midline with zero seconds left in overtime--the Crimson played one of its best games of the season, and showed some of the polish which lead it to a 15-0 record at the beginning of the season...
...even the Pope has decided to abandon his attitude of confrontation with the Polish regime in favor of compromise...
...Western financial support will allow Jaruzelski to end the Polish recession--and quell the frustration of the people. The regime of Jaruzelski is on its way to a definitive stabilization and the West is strongly contributing to its success. Just like Brezhnev had foreseen...
...time, walks past a 1950s-era filling station and is flabbergasted to see four cheery attendants in neatly pressed coveralls. Like a pit crew at the Indianapolis 500, they dash up to a car and proceed to fill the gas tank, check the oil, clean the windows and polish the chrome...
Still, drug abuse remains an intractable problem. As in the West, it is creating other social ills. AIDS transmitted by addicts sharing contaminated needles has begun to surface in these countries. Asked if he is concerned about that disease, Witold, the Polish heroin addict, simply shrugs. "By the time it reaches us," he says, "I will probably already be dead from kompot...