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Heralded as a top foreign recruit, Hall had trouble getting NCAA sanction to play American college soccer. The national committee initially ruled him ineligible on account of his brief stint with a professional club in England. When Hall proved he had never been paid to play, the restriction was reduced to a six-game...
...successful leader, Keegan argues, a commander must master five imperatives: the imperative of kinship (persuading his troops that he understands and cares for them); the imperative of prescription (being able to tell his troops exactly what he wants and why); the imperative of sanction (convincing the troops that they will be rewarded if they fight and punished if they don't); the imperative of action (knowing when to attack); and the imperative of example (showing that he shares in the troops' dangers...
...relatively invulnerable to punitive measures. That has much to do with the glitter of gold, which accounts for more than half of the country's $22 billion in foreign earnings expected this year, up 3% from 1986. Paradoxically, even though gold shipments are not banned by most sanction imposers, including the U.S., world jitters about South African political turmoil have helped boost the price of gold over the past two years, from $280 per oz. to a current level of $463. Even producers of some banned commodities have found ways to beat the rules. Many South African fishermen, for example...
...Pope held out a special hand of reconciliation in advance to Catholic homosexuals, who had been outraged at comments made by Archbishop John Foley, the American who heads Vatican communications. Foley had described the scourge of AIDS as a "natural sanction for certain types of activities." Aboard Spoleto, John Paul said homosexuals "are in the heart of the church," along with "all people who suffer." In his first-ever remarks on AIDS, the Pope said, "The church is doing all that is possible to heal and especially to prevent the moral background" of the disease...
...former revolutionary, who joined Castro's movement at the age of 15, claimed that the Cuban leader has a stash of cash totaling several million dollars hidden away in Switzerland. "Who can sanction Castro?" asked the defector. "What parliament or national assembly can ask for an explanation of what is done with that money...