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...referendum was, by default, left to essentially one student: Constitutional Convention Chairman Leonard T. Mendonca '83. Because of multiple concerns of the referendum which Mendonca had to plan and coordinate with the Faculty, it is more understandable that the election had a quirk. Even more amazing is the rapid ascendancy of L. Gerome Smith '84 to a position of leadership. After collecting about 100 signatures at a couple of meals. Smith complained to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III about the confusion stemming from the lack of publicity concerning the turnout opponent to the referendum procedures and last week...
...plumes of colored smoke began to rise. At that go-ahead signal, the sky blossomed with parachutes as 2,300 troops of the elite 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., began the first phase of operation Gallant Eagle '82, a massive $45 million mock invasion by the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force. It was one of the largest peacetime airdrops ever. It would also prove to be one of the most tragic...
...whether the soft-spoken and shy Shagari will be politically able to take the necessary steps. Shagari's free-market oriented National Party of Nigeria came to power in 1979 after elections ended 13 years of military rule. Since then, Shagari has pressed ahead with a program of rapid industrial and social development that cannot now be rolled back without alienating Nigerians...
...weeks later a different ad appeared. This one showed Hemingway reaching across an empty space to a smiling Patrice Donnelly under the suggestive legend. "With a competitor...how close can you get?" Maybe the film's distributors though lesbianism would sell better than athletics. Form the second ad's rapid disappearance we can inter that it didn...
Evans' somewhat impulsive style and his insistence on rapid change had nettled some veterans on the staff. Said one who preferred getting such predictable photographs as the Queen cutting a ceremonial ribbon: "Thank God we won't have to go about like blue-bottomed flies chasing pictures any more...