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...reported, the meeting did not run smoothly. An unfortunate scheduling problem arose by which the seventeen members of the Communications and Finance Committee were required to be in two places at once. We could begin the Council meeting without them. Some confusion resulted from our late start. Adding to this situation was the fact that the report of the Communications and Finance Committee included a highly controversial issue that arose from this week's referenda...
Princeton, which out shot Harvard 31-13, completed the scoring with two quick tallies in the final period. The goals--just seventeen seconds apart--assured the Tigers of their first Ivy win of the year...
...throw out some clothes," one essay begins, and throughout the book. Rooney's sartorial habits receive much attention. "Seek and thou shall find," he writes adding later. "Not in the bottom drawer of my dresser you won't find." Other essays describe his "unmatched socks," "seventeen shirts," and "worn shoelaces," "Hangers" include this piece of advice...
...Seventeen years after U.S. troops were sent to the Dominican Republic to prevent what Washington feared might be "another Cuba," the politically volatile Caribbean nation (pop. 5.7 million) last week demonstrated the resilience of its fledgling democracy. Moderate Social Democrat Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) became the country's fourth freely elected President since the assassination of Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
After eight years of negotiations, 130 nations last week approved a draft of a new treaty designed to extend the rule of international law to much of the high seas. The U.S., Turkey, Venezuela and Israel opposed the document. Seventeen nations, including many in Western Europe and the entire Soviet bloc except Rumania, abstained...