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...This," said a smiling taxi driver, "is the invasion we've been waiting for." The island will greet an even more significant invader with open arms this week: U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who will be the guest of honor at the celebration of Grenada's tenth birthday as an independent nation. Shultz may find, however, that the islanders are at present more interested in dependence. According to an informal poll conducted by Professor William Adams of George Washington University, three out of every four Grenadians would like their country to become part of the U.S. Some...
...impassioned plea reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon within the decade, Reagan last week called upon Congress to endorse another leap into the cosmos and establish a permanent space station. He unveiled the proposal just before the tenth flight of the shuttle, scheduled to lift off from Florida on Friday. A highlight of the eight-day mission will be an untethered sortie into space by two astronauts using NASA's new manned maneuvering units, which are in effect self-contained space capsules with their own steering jets...
...civil libertarians therefore reacted with outrage last week when it was disclosed that the U.S. had gone to court to limit the publication of a federal district judge's opinion that officials claimed "slandered" three Government prosecutors. What was even more surprising was that a panel of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma had granted a temporary injunction. The appeals court rescinded its order last Tuesday, but constitutional experts were still shocked that the court had agreed, however briefly, to the prior restraint. "For 21 days there was a censorship order outstanding against an absolutely trivial...
...somewhere between the Harvard men's basketball team's first and tenth substitution Monday night against New York University, the bigest bucket of the Crimson's 79-52 win dropped into the record books of Harvard sports history...
...Harvard ski team returned to Cambridge yesterday from the Bowdoin College Invitational Ski Race in Bethel, Maine with several strong performances. In men's action, Eric Albrecht took sixth place in giant slalom action while in the cross-country special, Bill Kealey earned seventh and Tim Allen garnered tenth. In the slalom race, Jeff Donahue took 'twelfth place and in the cross-country relay. Harvard finished second...