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...Mikhail Suslov, a hard-liner who died last January, is believed to have done his best to block the production, while Brezhnev Protege Konstantin Chernenko apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start of a period of transition, Shatrov's courageous play is a sign that some voices are speaking out for a re-examination of the traditions and practices of the Soviet...
First of all, the icemen belong to a lunatic mob of fans that rung the Boston Garden with the Harvard Gong and so much more. Second, they belong in the record books as one of the most amazing come-from-back-in-the-pack teams in ECAC history, at team that went from garbage can to silver platter faster than you can drop the puck. And finally, and most importantly, they belong in the ECAC tournament finals tonight against Northeastern, after their 7-1 destruction of number-one-seeded Clarkson last night at the Garden...
...district court decision is the lowest rung on the legal ladder. If a request for reconsideration is denied by Sherman, the city represented by new lawyers will likely ask for a stay first from district court and then from Superior Court...
...blacks are upset by both kinds of Cubans. Stuck on the bottom rung of South Florida's economic ladder, they have always resented the more prosperous Cuban minority. With the arrival of the Marielitos, blacks feared that they would lose out in the scramble for the few low-skill jobs avail able in the region. Even in Liberty City, the black enclave in North Miami where 18 people died in last year's riot, the Latin influence is apparent. White store owners who abandoned their businesses are being replaced by Latin landlords. "The only things blacks have in Miami...
...emergency was declared on Aug. 30, when Guard Gerald Magee, 33, was slain in Cellblock Six, a maximum-security area. His screams for help had rung out far beyond the block as a group of five convicts made an unsuccessful break for freedom. It took three hours before other guards could reach him. He was dead, his hands shackled behind him and half a dozen stab wounds in his chest. Investigators doubt that the would-be escapees who took him hostage had done it. They suspect three Chicano convicts, one a member of Los Carnales, a prison gang whose membership...