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Students had been denied the retroactive credit at first, even though the new Core version uses two of the same principal texts of the Music Department's offering. The courses were so similar, in fact, that students who had taken Jazz I were not allowed to take the new Core version...
...work. But they were double- edged. The shovel brigade was not organized by the Communist Party but by a new, pro-perestroika grass-roots movement called the Estonian Popular Front. Since the group first emerged last April in the most northerly of the Soviet Union's three Baltic republics, similar movements have taken root and flourished in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, attracting hundreds of thousands of followers. What unites them is the common goal of promoting greater regional autonomy. In the words of the Latvian movement's draft program, people want "to be masters in their own land...
...Moscow's apparent about- face in the Baltics been more evident than in the guardedly favorable recognition given the popular fronts. When the Estonians held an organizational congress in Tallinn two weeks ago, Communist Party First Secretary Vaino Valjas brought greetings from Gorbachev. At the end of a similar conference in Riga last week, Latvian party leader Janis Vagris stressed that "Communists and members of the Popular Front have common objectives...
...October 31, the Tufts Republican Club will participate in a debate on party platforms among students. Kim said the debate will be similar in format to the televised Presidential debates. Boston College (BC) will also hold its first Soapbox Debate on October 29, said Frank C. McLaughlin, chairman of the College Republicans...
Cooper said he biked 120 miles from Los Angeles to San Diego in a similar fundraising effort three years ago, raising $2500 to fight hunger in Africa. He predicted his current effort will raise about $2000 with continued luck...