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Responding to charges by a 'Providence, R.I., city councilman that Harvard is squandering a scholarship fund for Rhode Island students here, a University official last week claimed that the councilman "doesn't know what he's talking about...
...preliminary papers filed with the Rhode Island Supreme Court this week. Dershowitz wrote that Claus Von Bulow a stepson and a private investigator had illegally obtained a key piece of evidence in the original trial-an insulin-tainted hypodermic needle...
...less in the outcomes than in the margins. "The Democrats came within a whisker of having a landslide," said Wendell Ford. Democratic incumbents won handily, most rolling up wins of 20 points or more. If the Democrats had picked up about 43,000 votes in five states (Virginia, Rhode Island, Missouri, Nevada, Vermont), they would have taken control of the Senate. Republican moderates, such as John Chafee of Rhode Island, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, John Danforth of Missouri and Robert Stafford of Vermont, barely withstood strong challenges. The fact that they finally won will ensure the survival of the party...
...Democratic incumbents, 13 won with 60% or better, while four others attracted between 57% and 59% of the vote. But only one of the eleven G.O.P. incumbents, John Heinz of Pennsylvania, drew 60%. Indeed, four moderate Republicans, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, John Danforth of Missouri, John Chafee of Rhode Island and Robert Stafford of Vermont, squeaked by with a mere...
...that appeared on the ballots in 39 areas, ranging from individual cities and counties to nine states, the concept triumphed in all but three: one county in Arkansas, another in Colorado and the state of Arizona. The freeze won decisively in Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia, and was narrowly approved in California. The texts of the measures varied some, but the spirit was the same: most called for immediate negotiations for a verifiable freeze in the production, testing and deployment of all nuclear weapons, missiles and delivery systems. In addition...