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Outgoing GSA president Benjamin H. Schatz '81 said yesterday he thinks Yedinsky's election will "broaden our appeal and attract new members--it will get rid of the common misconception that the GSA is all male...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: GSA Unanimously Elects Its First Woman Leader | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

...been held captive first reported to the senior Marine colonel at Wiesbaden, their disheveled leader snapped off a salute and said: "The Marine squadron from Tehran reporting for duty, sir." Returning the salute, the smartly uniformed officer ordered them to march off to the Wiesbaden barbershop and get rid of beards and long hair. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: An End to the Long Ordeal | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...room in 1973 by the Korean CIA and hustled home, is one of South Korea's most popular politicians. Two years before his kidnaping, he polled 43% of the vote in an election that was obviously rigged to favor then President Park Chung Hee. Hanging him would get rid of a constant nemesis for Chun, an army general who became provisional President last September, nearly a year after Park's assassination. Chun is running for a full term in presidential elections on Feb. 25. Besides that, an execution would mollify Chun's fellow officers, who would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The President Opts for Mercy | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Throughout the West, unseasonably high temperatures are making even artificial snow hard to keep and migratory birds hard to get rid of. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, golf courses have been plagued by hundreds of Canada geese, apparently deceived by the balmy weather into thinking they have reached Mexico. "It's wall-to-wall geese," says Bruce Waldo, the parks and recreation director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Cold, Too Hot, Too Dry | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...Morrison, a black woman of 35, hired Cucinotta to represent her for $200. But before he could, two federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents went to Morrison's home. They were blunt: "Your lawyer is going to make an ass out of himself, and you too," said one. Get rid of Cucinotta, they urged, and help the DEA finger a bigger pusher in return for leniency. If she refused, they said, she could expect a "stiff sentence" from the judge, who "hates black people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sam's Hour of Glory?and Agony | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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