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...help Gemayel's forces win the Lebanese civil war is not. Reagan emphatically does not need any more trouble with Congress, where many Republicans as well as Democrats are grumbling that he got the U.S. into a no-win situation in Lebanon. Says G.O.P. Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island: "That shelling is terrible, completely contrary to what we stand for." Congress, however, is unlikely to do much except complain when it reconvenes this week after an eleven-day recess. Democrats are thanking their luck that they never brought to a vote resolutions mandating a pullout of the Marines...
After the relatively quiet bus ride to the game, the road trip back to Harvard displayed all the leftover energy. As the Band sang tuneless melodies and then attempted to "Shake Rhode Island," it occurred to me what a long, strange trip it had been...
Women's fencing at Rhode Island College Women's swimming vs. Brown, 7 p.m., Blodgett Pool...
...fighting mood now prevalent among local bankers by saying, "For a hundred years we've been trying to build our own capital base in the South. We're not going to let some Yankee money-center banks come in and swoop it all up." Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island last spring created the first U.S. regional banking zone. This allows institutions in one of the states to acquire banks or savings and loans in the other two. The Bank of Boston ($20 billion) promptly took advantage of the new law by announcing plans to merge with two other...
...invitational meet at MIT on Saturday the Harvard women's gymnastics team failed to place as Albany University won the meet. Rhode Island College took second and MIT took third...