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Players of the Week:Offense: Ciavaglia. Friday, the junior center opened the scoring with a swift shot by ace Colgate goaltender Dave Gagnon, then fooled the Red Raiders with a last-second sucker play that gave Weisbrod a goal and the Crimson a 2-0 lead...
Drury, who proved for the third-straight game that he is a force to be contended with, made OT seem almost imminent with his smooth stickhandling and swift flick past Dave Gagnon (40 saves...
Gorbachev addressed Pope John Paul II as "your Holiness" during their meeting. He said people "have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs," and pledged swift adoption of a new religious law guaranteeing freedom of worship...
...departure leaves in power only Nicolae Ceausescu in Rumania and Milos Jakes in Czechoslovakia, both old-style Communist dictators. Their fate? Who knows? Only a few weeks ago, East Germany seemed one of the most stolidly Stalinist of all Moscow's allies and the one least likely to undergo swift, dramatic change...
Crack, a smokable form of cocaine, is a drug that might have been designed for use on the job. It is easy to conceal, since it burns with virtually no odor, and the gratification is swift: an intense, almost sexual euphoria that lasts only about five minutes and is not accompanied by such telltale side effects as alcohol's slurred speech and heroin's drowsiness...