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Mitch Messier (40-46--86) and Bill Schibicky (42-34--76) head the potent Michigan State offense. The net-minding duties will probably fall on Bob Essensa, the Spartan goaltender in last year's national championship game. This year Essensa has posted an 18-2-1 record, a 2.66 goals-against average, and a save percentage...
...Spartan forward Kevin Miller tallied the winning goal at 6:02 of the sudden death period, giving Michigan State an automatic berth and home ice in the NCAA tournament...
When he arrived in South Africa, Perkins, a career Foreign Service officer who had previously been Ambassador to Liberia, set out immediately to meet the country's black community. He still attends largely white diplomatic dinner parties, but more often he heads to grimy offices in Soweto or a spartan church in Mamelodi, the dusty black township outside Pretoria, or a listing shanty in Crossroads, a squatter camp near Cape Town. Perkins attended Christmas services at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Soweto and has taken long walks through the mean slums of Alexandra Township, next door to Johannesburg...
...just another few days one of the big events will rumble out of the spartan offices behind the gray metal door of Room 5221 in the New Executive Office Building, its explosive potential held between two cool-blue covers. The report from former Senator John Tower's commission to investigate Iranscam and the errant apparatus of the National Security Council may run to several hundred pages of raw data...
...ideas. He sometimes appears to wield his detailed understanding of issues as a kind of personal shield. He admits that Mondale's question probed deeper than policy particulars. "Fritz touched a nerve when he sort of questioned who I was," says Hart from behind the desk of his rather spartan Denver law office. "What he was really saying was, 'Is this guy well-grounded enough to govern this country?' " Hart can answer the question that stymies many other candidates: Why are you running for President? But he still seems uneasy with the question that bothers few others...