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Neihter Zimmerman nor his attorney, Charles B. Doleac of Portsmouth, N.H., could be reached for comment...
...small flotilla of eight racing shells carrying 68 students, accompanied by coaches in three powered launches set out down the Oyster River which leads to the Bay. The squall that swamped the boats, the officials said came suddenly and without warning Officers at the Coast Guard station in Portsmouth, N.H. said, however, that gale warnings had been in effect earlier in the day and small craft were advised not to be on the water when the accident occurred...
General Galtieri's deservedly abyssmal reputation and the clearly aggressive nature of the Argentine action made the casting of the villain in the Falklands war a fairly easy task for the casual Western observer; the sight of the British fleet steaming away from Portsmouth Harbor to the defense of this last vestige of the Empire made choosing the hero similarly uncomplicated. Behind this simplistic facade, however, lay a hundred years of British foot-dragging and neglect, and a tangled web of alliances and implications that involved North America as well as Europe and which will continue to reverberate through...
When Patricia Wright '83 was a freshman, she spent her Christmas vacation away from her hometown of Portsmouth. Virginia, undergoing an operation in a Boston hospital. Her own family could not be there, but Wright had a Harvard-supplied "host mother" who visited her in the hospital daily and provided a home where Wright could recuperate for a month...
...some as transparently ambitious, with a lackluster congressional record-his 1982 absenteeism rating was 399 out of 435. By contrast, Davis, a former mortgage banker, was drafted for the Democratic nomination and had a reputation for taking care of business during his six-year tenure as mayor of Portsmouth. With the undecided vote hovering at 20%, victory appears to hinge more on style and character than on substance...