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Nobody understands the problems of managing a team better than other managers. So, the managers have formed a group called the Undergraduate Managers' Council to get support and unity among the managers of various sports. The Council is organizing itself along the lines of the old Undergraduate Managers' Council--which disbanded in the early 1970s...
...past years, Cambridge has recognized the Holocaust National Day of Remembrance with various activities, but this is the first time a week has been proclaimed, said Claire M. Murphy, executive assistant to the mayor...
...accusations in light of Israel's violent responses to the current uprising. At least 123 Palestinians have been shot, beaten or tear gassed to death. Four Palestinians have been deported from their homeland, thousands of others arrested without charge. Telephone lines, electricity and even food have been denied to various Arab villages. And in one of the most recent events, the Israeli occupation forces blew up the homes of more than a dozen Arab families in response to the alleged stoning of a young Jewish girl. It was later discovered that the girl had been mistakenly shot by her Jewish...
There was a noticeable loosening of the controlled Nicaraguan press as contras appeared on various radio shows. But the plight of the opposition daily La Prensa raised questions about whether the Sandinistas intended to honor the Sapoa accord's call for "unrestricted freedom of expression." Last week the daily was unable to go to press because the government was squeezing its newsprint supply. The two pro-Sandinista newspapers were able to print more copies than they could sell...
...uprising against China's occupying forces propelled the Dalai Lama into Indian exile. Yet the spirit of his ancient, fairy-tale theocracy is still very much alive in Dharmsala, a former British hill station 250 miles north of New Delhi. Here, attended by a State Oracle, a rainmaking lama, various medicine men, astrologers and a four- man Cabinet, the Dalai Lama, 52, incarnates all the beliefs and hopes of his imperiled homeland, much as he has done since first ascending the Lion Throne in Lhasa at age four...