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Having made it through the storm of meets thatmarked the squad's early season, Harvard can nowprepare for Saturday's showdown against Army inWest Point, N.Y. The dual meet is the Crimson'slast before Christmas vacation, when it willtravel for 10 days to Honolulu for its annualtraining trip...
...Nabisco showdown may prove to be one of Milken's final moments of glory. He and Drexel are expected to be slapped any day now with criminal indictments accusing them of racketeering, mail fraud and other crimes. The charges would stem from two years of federal investigations that prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission to file a civil suit against Milken and Drexel in September, accusing them of 18 transactions including stock manipulation and other securities-law violations. Says a close associate of the embattled dealmaker: "Two years ago, Milken was on top of the world. Now it has crashed...
...battle over Roe v. Wade will not be won or lost in the Oval Office or in state legislatures. The showdown will take place where the struggle began: in the Supreme Court. Though the court has not yet agreed to hear an abortion-related case this term, Thornburgh's Justice Department wasted no time in its efforts to place the subject on the docket. Just two days after the election, it filed a brief asking the high court to hear a case from Missouri. "If the court is prepared to reconsider Roe v. Wade," argued the document, "this case presents...
...hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last week Quinn took the final step by informing the archdiocese's priests that they...
...flagging fortunes of the Atlanta papers. After beefing up the staff and running hard-hitting stories on such powerful local institutions as Coca-Cola and the Georgia Power Co., says Kovach, the papers' managers began urging shorter, softer stories in the mold of USA Today. Finally, following a showdown with the publisher over control of the papers' Washington bureau, Kovach quit...