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When Harvard announced last month that it had invited Lech Walesa to be Commencement speaker, some people were more impressed than others, and among the more dispassionate was the Warsaw Communist daily Trynbuna Ludu. According to United Press International (UPI), last Friday's Trynbuna Ludu had this to say about Walesa's invitation and the subsequent confusion...
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...this Saturday, though, that the 5-1-1 Eagles, ranked twentieth in the UPI poll, have really been waiting for. Seventh-ranked Penn State is at Chestnut Hill this weekend, favored by more than a touchdown. The Nittany Lions haven't lost to a New England team since Harvard beat them in 1932. It's a crucial game for B. C.'s bowl invitation chances more important it's a chance for a team riding high on its spirit and hard work to show what it can do against one of the perennial national powers that treat college football like...
...dealing with a time warp," says UPI's Foreign Editor Paul Varian. "The British sink a ship and it takes forever to find out." But perhaps that is not all for the bad. As McDonald might say, see King John, Act IV, Scene 2, line 133 ("Do not seek to stuff my head with more ill news, for it is full"). -By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Maureen Down/New York and Arthur White/London
Hersh, who has won numerous major journalism onwards, began his career in 1959 as a UPI correspondent. After serving as a New York Times correspondent form 1963-1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 when he uncovered the Mai Lai Massacre