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...NCAA managed to toss a wrench into the icemen's campaign as well, disallowing. Allan Bourbeau from returning to competition after two semesters off. A victim of an "academic progress" rule. Bourbeau met Harvard's stringent criteria for returning to the ice, but failed to equal the more arbitrary guidelines of the NCAA...
Amid the mayhem, Jordan's King Hussein was continuing his efforts to win U.S. support for the wider Middle East peace initiative he launched with Arafat in February. Last week, after meeting with Arafat in Amman, the King flew to Cairo to brief Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on progress. This week Hussein arrives in Washington for discussions with President Reagan. His aim: to win Washington's backing for talks between U.S. officials and a joint Jordanian Palestinian peace delegation. Such a meeting would be followed, according to Hussein's plan, by direct Arab-Israeli negotiations over the future...
...biologists, who waged a lifelong inquiry into ways of reconciling Darwin's theory of evolution with his own conviction that transcendental religious experience was a "biological fact"; of a stroke suffered two weeks ago, only two days before he was to receive formally the $185,000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion; in Oxford, England...
...Mexico. Above the horseshoe-shaped counter on panels where a menu is usually displayed, an overhead slide show is in progress. The pictures change slowly, allowing the viewer to take in all the details. A low shot of a Peterbilt, its chrome fittings sparkling in the sunshine, is followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels...
...home and have refused to return to Italy. The Bulgarian government has said that it will fully cooperate with the Italians. That raises the possibility of moving the hearing to Sofia at some point to take the absent defendants' testimony. Negotiations over just such a shift are now in progress...