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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard travels to the University of Rhode Island Tuesday... The Crimson must win its final four games to avoid its first losing season in three years... Two of the Crimson's final three league games are at home...
Critics in Congress continue to question the regulators' handling of the Continental bailout. Last week Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St. Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, charged that federal regulators had drummed up support for the bailout by exaggerating the number of banks that would have fallen in a domino effect if Continental had been allowed to fail. As a result of congressional pressure to avoid such rescues, bankers believe First Chicago, because of its fundamental soundness, presented an opportunity for the Comptroller to clamp down without causing a widespread scare...
...Given Rhode Island's recent political embarrassments, it is hardly surprising that Solomon, who succeeded in disclaiming party ties, was the winner. The Democrats' 1982 gerrymandering of senate districts proved so crude that the courts ruled it unconstitutional. Over the past year 16 Providence city employees and vendors were indicted by grand juries on charges ranging from extortion to payroll padding. To cap the political profession's embarrassment, Providence Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci Jr. was forced to resign last April after pleading no contest to charges of assault against a man who he said was having...
...Five Republican women are running for high offices, including Arlene Violet, a former nun making a second bid for state attorney general. Violet's strong law-and-order platform has earned her the sobriquet Attila the Nun. Local Republican strategists have yet another reason to take heart: although Rhode Island was the only New England state to reject Reagan in 1980, a recent poll suggests that it now places the President in a dead heat with Walter Mondale...