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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday, police arrested Joseph Henry, originally of Newark, N.J., for the murder. Henry, a sophomore, lives in an off-campus residence within sight of Cleary's dormitory, Stoughton Hall...
...France. Recalls Santiapichi: "With almost a hundred witnesses in court and defendants who spoke in three different languages, we were slowed down." To hear one witness in the Netherlands, the session had to be conducted in Turkish, Dutch, German and Italian. Quipped a visiting Australian judge at the sight of translators for the Bulgarian and Turkish defendants: "This is the trial of Babel...
...spills, increased air pollution from diesel-powered pumps, and other health and environmental hazards. Fishermen claim that increased drilling activity would disrupt their $1.25 billion industry and that pollution would harm feeding and spawning grounds. Businessmen dependent on the state's $31 billion tourism industry fear that the mere sight of oil rigs along stretches of California's wild coast would drive away vacationers...
...Gaddafi certainly felt good: taking up his "line of death" dare, double-daring him back, winning a public slapping match, sailing away. Yet, now what? America might seem just a bit less like a helpless giant, but could a breezy flick really be expected to chasten Gaddafi? And the sight of Army choppers kicking up dust in a foreign bush was disquieting, an eerie evocation of Apocalypse Now. In Ronald Reagan's two-front muscle flexing last week, the images and the reality were hard to sort out. Power, yes, and the will to use it, yes. But to what...
...real Italians," foreshadowing the way Adela Quested in A Passage to India will go in search of the "real Indians." Innocently perusing the wares of a postcard vendor in the main square, Lucy stumbles onto a street fight--an Edwardian equivalent of a gang war. Fainting away at the sight of a youth expiring at her feet, she is carried off by the already enamored George, no doubt eager to demonstrate his frustrated manhood for the sake of his lady in distress. When Lucy awakens, George confesses that "something has changed"--he will never be the same...