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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right-wing protests on campus. Right-wing yahoos are jubilant that the U.S. finally found a country small enough for Reagan's supercommandos to cream. Yuk it up, guys... if you think Cuba or Nicaragua is next, your CIA and Army buddies will find themselves stuck in a roach motel ("they'll check in but they won't check out"). To be sure, the spectacle of "rescued" U.S. medical students kissing American soil made better press for Reagan than the nightly newscasts of mangled bodies of over 200 dead Marines in Beirut. But after all the flag-waving has died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grenada | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...Holyoke sophomore Karry J. Fox is threatening to tile charges of harassment against Officers William C. Roach of the South Hadley police. Fox said that the officer "pushed me around" after a party last weekend which the police closed down because many of the drinkers were allegedly under...

Author: By Gregor F.L. Gruber, | Title: Crashed Party | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...Navy's Sealab program. Since then he has pursued various oceanographic ventures but admits to having "difficulty finding a good, solid third career." Today he lives in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles and works part-time giving speeches and consulting. He and his second wife, Maria Roach, 36, have two young sons, and Carpenter describes himself as mainly a "father-in-residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meanwhile, Back in Real Life. . . | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Rome's ruling on the Mansour case might raise a question for the president of the U.S. hierarchy, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis. In February he gave approval "at this time" for Sister Mary Madonna Ashton to become Minnesota's health commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Obey or Leave | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Although she has nothing to do with abortions, Ashton does run a program on birth control, a practice that also violates Roman Catholic doctrine. But the ultimate issue in the Michigan case was simple obedience to the hierarchy, and Roach has not demanded that Ashton denounce public funding of birth control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Obey or Leave | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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