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...Student Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Institute of Politics this week elected 18 new members to its staff, ending a week-long selection process...
After three days of debate, the Senators adjourned for a week-long recess; but before leaving Washington, they agreed to an unusual closed-door session next week to discuss charges that General Torrijos is involved in secret drug traffic. When the issue was raised by a treaty opponent, Robert Dole of Kansas, Fellow Republican Jacob Javits of New York argued that the point was meaningless. "We don't have to prove that Torrijos is an angel. I don't think he is ... What is important is whether the treaties are in the long-term interest of the United...
...obstructing justice in connection with the Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon-papers case. While he was behind bars, Colson bent rules to help fellow inmates; outside, he has dedicated himself to bringing them the hope of salvation. Brown leather Bible in hand, Colson, 46, now speaks in prisons and organizes week-long inmate seminars. His most dramatic program has brought 107 convicts to Washington for two weeks of Bible...
That resource, evolving over the past three years, has now brought more than 175 Southie High students out to Thomson's Island for the seven-week Harbor Environmental Program, as well as attracting more than a thousand other Boston public school students for day-and week-long environmental education visits...
...EASTER WEEK, 1916, brought a revolution to Ireland and a genuine thrill to "Irish America." As Dublin's incurable romantics proclaimed their Irish Republic, Brooklyn's irrepressible Irishmen set the tone for a generation of immigrants by cheering on the show. It was a time when Irish-Americans were only slightly more respectable than grave robbers, but no one seemed to care: more green-and-gold Irish Republican flags draped the Brooklyn waterfront, and news of the Easter Rebellion even eclipsed the Dodgers' daily dispatches from Ebbets Field. All around the country Irish communities staged a week-long ethnic festival...