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Compared with the turnout for past demonstrations, the number of Solidarity supporters who were willing last week to face beatings, drenchings and possible arrest had significantly dwindled. But if Walesa and his followers could not hope to prevail against Polish riot squads, they did cause Jaruzelski considerable embarrassment on the eve of his trip to Moscow. Speaking to a May Day rally in Warsaw, the general sought to strike a cautious balance between repression and reform. Said Jaruzelski: "A storm has swept over our land. It cleaned some things and littered others as every storm does. We must extend...
...spikers can prevail over sixth-ranked George Mason next weekend, and then the winner of the Penn St. East Stroudsburg matchup, the Crimson will be headed for UCLA, the national Final Four and national...
YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AT STANFORD SALUTE YOU. STAY TO GETHER AND YOU WILL PREVAIL. OURS IS A COMMON STRUGGLE. FIGHT ON. THE STANFORD...
...longer than anyone in Washington can remember, Presidents have been confronted by frothing opponents who claim, "He has no foreign [or domestic] policy." Translated, that generally means, "I won't accept his ideas but I don't have anything of my own." Fortunately, such obfuscation does not prevail long. The political record indicates that any President who acts successfully to change things gets the credit for initiating a fresh approach no matter how old the ideas...
...Organization led by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Last week, however, King Hussein turned thumbs down on any such initiative. In a stinging rebuke to Washington, the King told the New York Times: "I now realize that principles mean nothing to the U.S. Short-term issues, especially in election years, prevail...