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KONSTANTIN U. CHERNENKO had lain with Soviet gods nary a week when this eminently disposable biography of the Russian Kennedy hurtled headlong towards Gorbachev lovers everywhere...
Claude Brunelle, 31, a security guard at the Turkish embassy in Ottawa, usually works in a bulletproof booth. But when three men parked their U-Haul truck on the grass beside the embassy entrance early one morning last week, he emerged from his booth, challenged the men, then suddenly pulled his .38-cal. revolver and fired. The interlopers cut him down with a fusillade, killing him, then blew open the embassy's front doors with explosives...
Although not part of the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Seviet Premier Konstantin U. Chernenko last week in Moscow, Cambridge City Councilor Francis H. Duchay '55 payed a visit to the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. to express his condolences to Chernenko's family and people on behalf of the people of Cambridge...
...National Science Foundation announced that he would be taking charge of one of the new supercomputer centers it is establishing at four U.S. universities. The selected schools--Princeton, Cornell, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign--were immediately dubbed the "supercomputer U's." Their new machines, acquired through a $200 million NSF grant, will be the core of a network connecting some 30 other schools. The network should dramatically increase the high-speed computing power available to thousands of researchers...
...Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message is J-E-S-U...