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...appearing on the edge of town at Queen's Park, Bishop's favorite gathering place to address his people. The Marines spread out in firing positions alongside tanks and personnel carriers, while Grenadians sat looking back from their front steps on the opposite hillside. A U.S. tank sprang into life, firing into a hill with thick green vegetation, making a direct hit on an ammo dump and an antiaircraft position. One young man who sat watching the scene admitted that he too was once for the revolution. Now, reluctantly, he welcomed the invaders...
...world. Without denying its own belief that it has a special divine mission, Catholicism now acknowledges that it is but one of many spiritual voices with something to tell perplexed modern man. The more the church returns in spirit to the unfettered simplicity of the Gospel from which it sprang, the more likely it is that its voice will be heeded again by the world...
Harvard Square became a boomtown over the summer: as several new buildings sprang up in what were vacant lots when students left...
...plants were abandoned in early 1982, the people of the Northwest were enraged at the prospect of paying off the bonds through higher electric bills, with no hope of getting anything in return. Citizens' groups with such names as Irate Rate Payers and the Light Brigade sprang up and held town meetings to protest. Complained Mark Reis, executive director of a Seattle energy-conservation coalition: "They promised us power without cost, and they delivered cost without power." Some of the utilities tried to renege on their take-or-pay contracts with Whoops, and that raised the specter of default...
...growing number of proprietors of so-called microbreweries, which specialize in richer and more flavorful suds than the typical American beer. Such breweries have been winning intense local followings wherever they appear. "The micros are a response to the demand for more elegant beer that sprang up in the 1970s," says Lowell Edmunds, a Boston College classics professor and student of the beer market...