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...walk through the Soviet line toward the Tadzhiks, whose control of most of the city begins about 150 yds. away from the square. Tadzhiks quickly swarm around, suspicious and hostile. "We are American correspondents," I say, attempting to make it sound as though it's the most normal thing in the world for us to be there. I take out my notebook ostentatiously and begin to write. The complaints come thick and fast...
While protestors were raucously rallying outside Hemenway Gym yesterday, Harvard's men's squash team rallied to a peaceful 8-1 victory over Princeton. Despite the disruption of El Salvador President Alfredo Cristiani appearing with a swarm of Secret Service agents at his son Alex's match, the Crimson didn't let its last big home-sweet-home game of the season turn sour...
...quarter of a million people died of hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. Once again the world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped against herding sticks, too weary to take another step...
...bloodless revolution, without the murderous, conspiratorial associations that the word has carried in the past. In novel alliance with the glasnost of world communications, Gorbachev became the patron of change: Big Brother's better twin. His portraits, like icons at a saint's-day festival, waved amid a swarm of Czechs. The East German young chanted "Gorby! Gorby!" to taunt the police...
EAST Germans Swarm to Prague; 8000 Are Allowed to Cross Border...