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DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...
...Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely. Alex Jennings' George W. Bush cannily suggests the confidence and drive beneath the cowboy persona. And the dramatic high point comes when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (Joe Morton) battles with Nick Sampson's silkily threatening French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin over the all-important right to a second United Nations resolution. If all that sounds more like a news story than a play, Hare the playwright has defeated Hare the propagandist. The veteran dramatist knows that great characters make great drama...
...Elizabeth Sampson...
...improvement in lifting, but they both have tendency to play too far out from their positions. The line-up FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Pell, l.e. r.e.,Howes, Niles Townsend, l.c r.c., Brown, Fraser-Campbell Macleod, r.c. l.c., Dutton Edgell M. Newhall, r.e. l.e., Gilbert, Briggs D.Newhall, c.p. c.p., Harding Sampson Willetts, P. p., Burton Claflin Ivy, g. g., Holloway, Tilney Goals--Macleod 2, D. Newhall, Pell, Townsend...
...goals. Cavanagh had the primary assist on his first goal, at 6:26 of the first. After Johnson made an acrobatic spin to keep the puck in the zone, Cavanagh dug it out of the corner and zipped a backhanded pass to Johnson. Backchecking winger Jarrett Sampson whacked Johnson’s stick as he one-timed it, creating a knuckle-puck that eluded goaltender Dan Yacey to the far side...