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...ultimate question is still be decided this year. The ivy has indeed been torn down from two House being renovated, Lowell and Winthrop but the roots have been left, and administrators say that no final, long-term solution has been made Until then, the green leaves will continue to decorate the houses, the Yard walls, and even Massachusetts and University Halls...
...difficult spot. Under a measure enacted late last year, the Administration must provide Congress formal certification every six months that El Salvador is improving its record on human rights and expanding economic benefits to the poor in order to maintain foreign aid to that strife-torn nation. But reports had reached members of the committee that human rights violations were still taking place. Enders thus made a careful pitch. Arguing that the Administration was by no means blind to the faults of the San Salvador government, he nonetheless insisted: "We believe the facts amply justify the certification required...
...decision to quit the presidency became known, there were few doubts that the National Guard had forced him to resign and that the country Torrijos had kept balanced between the extremes would now be tilting right. Panama, for the last decade one of the few stable nations in strife-torn Central America, now faces a decidedly uncertain future...
...Allen in AMNSC to remind the still faithful of the old abundant pleasures. The interweaving themes are sex and love; the tone is summer-solstice warm; the six characters dance an amorous roundelay whose steps are guided by biology, sympathy and caprice. Woody is again the chronically lovable shlemiel, torn between his passion for the ethereal Ariel (Mia Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes off yet." Allen's directorial...
...About the time that Mercenaries Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk and Rick Burleson shipped out, Houk shipped on. "When everyone was saying we'd finish last a year ago," says Yaz, "Houk was saying, 'Let's show them.' " Boston lost the second half of the strike-torn season by l l/2 games. "In Yaz," says Houk, sitting cross-legged by himself in the dugout, "I see the same thing Al Kaline had in Detroit: an unbelievable love of the game. Yaz is an amazing man. Not fast, but he knows how to run the bases...