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...University of Texas took the overall team title, pulling away from second-place Southern Cal and third-place Stanford on the final day of competition. With the victory, the Longhorns snapped Stanford's three-year reign in the national meet...
This state of affairs is not surprising, given the hostility to innovation that has marked the long reign of conservative Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, 74, since 1948 the iron chancellor of the state Composers Union. The tough-minded, politically agile Stalinist, who was a point man for the infamous Resolution of 1948 that ripped Shostakovich and Prokofiev for modernism, Khrennikov brought a generation of composers to heel in the name of socialist realism...
...point all sides agreed: Noriega's five-year reign as Panama's strongman seems to be near an end. Support for the general has withered rapidly since President Eric Arturo Delvalle tried to dismiss him as chief of | the Defense Forces last month. When Noriega flexed his muscle by engineering Delvalle's ouster instead, Washington responded by heeding Delvalle's plea for a freeze on some $50 million in Panamanian funds in U.S. banks and imposed other sanctions as well. The moves forced Panama to shut its banks, slowing down a once fast-paced economy and driving thousands, from doctors...
...same time, part of the national mind knows it is time to get back to work, to solve the problems Reagan has both created and left unattended. The concerns of the poor have gone largely unaddressed during the reign of Reaganism. The power of Jackson's candidacy is rooted in their claim for renewed attention...
...only thing Harvard did not do was win the MISRA six-man title, placing second in the six-man championship at Princeton. The Tigers triumph ended the Crimson's seven-year reign...