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Minutes later, Mitterrand's first Cabinet choice was announced. Pierre Mauroy, 52, the mayor of the northern industrial city of Lille and longtime Socialist Party stalwart, was named Premier in the interim government that will rule until the parliamentary elections take place next month. Other ministerial appointments announced later in the week included some familiar names in the hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban...
Soon after, a Crimson stalwart who has been on our minds since passing for 250 yards in one half against Colgate three years ago was plucked from the halls of Lowell House by another Boston-area institution, the New England Patriots, who may want to employ him as their quarterback in a year...
...Senior stalwart Chuck Johnson set the meet's tone by beating archrival Sergio Aguerro to the tape in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 15.1 seconds...
...Caribbean today is the theater for a naval war. At stake are the sea lanes through which in 1980 passed 20 million lbs. of Colombian gold-marijuana worth $16 billion on the street. Challenging the smuggling fleets with a thin, stalwart line of vessels is the U.S. Coast Guard. Since January the Coast Guard has intercepted and seized 779,847 lbs. of marijuana, with a market value of $273 million. The best record of interceptions is held by Dauntless, a 210-ft.-long cutter with a crew of 85; 40 marijuana leaves have been painted on the ship...
...counted a majority of 51 Senators opposed to any AWACS sale; 46 already have gone on record against it. So have 78 Representatives, and House leaders say a majority probably is opposed. Moreover, the opposition includes not only traditional Democratic friends of Israel but staunchly conservative Republicans who are stalwart Reaganites on most other issues. Concedes a senior Reagan political adviser: "As of today, the Saudi deal would not get through Congress...