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Whitley, a junior returning for her third year in net, had a successful if not very busy weekend. While a relentless Crimson offense forced Lion and Cardinal goalies to make a total of 32 saves, Whitley had to repel only 12 shots over two games--and all three of Columbia's came on free kicks...
...what government could do for the individual, Reagan is testing the lower limits. Reagan's opinions and policies would be enough in another time to have protesters marching in the streets, or worse. And yet something about Reagan soothes and unites--even though the effects of his programs may repel. He softens the meaner edges of conservatism with populist effusions, reaching outside the rigid framework of ideologies to the pool of shared American experience, to our dreamy nostalgias. Two landslides and six years on, the Gallup poll gives Reagan a 68% approval rating, the best he has done since...
Again, the policy pays little attention to the past: for example, to the fact that Cuban troops were invited by the Angolan government to help repel an invasion by South African forces from bases in the illegally occupied territory of Namibia...
With Barakett providing a new sting to the Crimson's offense, it seems unlikely that any team will repel the Cantabs' charge...
Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova, after hearing of the attack, recalled his ambassador from Managua and put the armed forces on general alert along the 500-mile border with Nicaragua. Having conferred with U.S. Ambassador John Ferch, Suazo Cordova said the army would "use all necessary measures to repel the aggression." Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called the Honduran attack an "invasion" and blamed...