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With last Thursday's Steeler loss to Houston, a 10-0 error-ridden travesty of a football game, the long reign of the Steelers may suddenly be over--at least for this year. There was no joy in Mudville this past weekend. The morning after the game, a drizzing, cold, overcast Friday, the gloomy atmosphere seemed to be mirrored and intensified by each passing face. Old men stood around street corners with their hands in their pockets and their heads hung, staring stupidly at the ground without speaking, or muttering softly to one another in sympathetic comraderie...
...junta that took over El Salvador's government more than a year ago, ending the repressive reign of Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero, has proved powerless against the wave of terror loosed by both the left and the right. In what amounts to an undeclared civil war, 8,400 people have been killed in terrorist attacks so far this year. Last week brought one of the most barbaric acts yet. In broad daylight, as the six men who led the country's left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists...
...with crucial plays, Durst brings a laid-back style to the position of captain. "I'm not the only leader on the team--we have broad leadership," number 72 says. Crimson players and coaches alike agree that this year's squad is as close as any during the Restic reign. As for the defense, Restic says, "It's as good a unit as I've had here...
...11th annual Boston Open squash tournament provided for a successful homecoming this weekend for Mike Desaulniers '80. Undefeated in his four years as the Crimson's top-seeded racquetman, the Montrealer continues to reign as king of Hemenway...
...inevitably focused on the radical Gang of Four. Gang Leader Jiang Qing, Mao Tse-tung's onetime companion, and her accomplices from Shanghai (municipal Party Official Zhang Chunqiao, Literary Critic Yao Wenyuan and cotton-mill Party Functionary Wang Hongwen) assumed power in the mid-1960s and instituted a reign of terror in which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide. Though the gang members were arrested and dis graced four years ago, the announcement that they would go on trial for then-crimes came only last month. The trial...