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...Nakasone's success has started to turn sour. Last week the L.D.P. suffered an embarrassing 64% to 30% defeat at the hands of the opposition Socialist Party in a special election to fill a Diet seat in a district long regarded as a ruling-party stronghold. A poll released last week by the daily Asahi Shimbun reported that support for Nakasone has dropped over the past three months from 39% to 25%. And in cities around the country, leftist unions have joined hands with conservative shopkeepers to braid hangmen's nooses that are used on effigies of the Prime Minister...
...first individual event--the 500 freestyle--what was always a Crimson stronghold became a gauntlet of punishment, as Princeton placed first, second, third, and fourth overall. The highest Harvard finisher was John Pearson, who grabbed sixth...
Alumni recruiting has been a traditional stronghold of the Ivy schools. With thousands of grads across the country--often organized into clubs and organizations--the Ivies saved assistant coaches immeasurable time and effort. Instead of coaches scouring the nation for appropriate talent and corrupt athletic boosters wooing hot prospects, Ivy alumni have established a reputation for fair and effective recruiting through letter writing, phone calling and interviewing. Personal visits, however, are prohibited...
...that Congress will continue to support the rebels in the absence of a better strategy for containing the Sandinistas. Speaking at a meeting of the American Bar Association in New Orleans, Secretary of State George Shultz last week reiterated the Administration view that the Sandinista regime is a "Soviet ( stronghold on the mainland." By supporting the Nicaraguan insurrection, said Shultz, "we may avoid direct military involvement by the U.S. in the future." Such dire warnings are intended to present the American people with a stark choice: pay for the contras now or pay for a war later...
...impact of the region's fierce factionalism was once again being felt in unstable Lebanon. On Christmas Day a Libyan diplomat based in neighboring Syria, Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi, was killed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley when gunmen raked his car with machine-gun fire. The Bekaa is a ! stronghold of Lebanese Shi'ites who still blame Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the 1978 disappearance and possible murder of their spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr. The assumption in Beirut was that the diplomat's killing was the latest in a series of retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese Shi'ites...