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Indeed, Reagan turned the issue around with his oh-so-familiar grin and a sharp, well-rehearsed quip: "I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." Mondale smiled back but had to have been surprised by the unexpected twist, and the audience laughed with the President...
...Armed youth gangs have long prowled the streets of east and south-central Los Angeles, terrorizing the poor neighborhoods and fighting bloody turf battles. But the violence during the past month has been especially lethal. In the bloodiest weekend in 17 years, nine people were shot dead and six wounded in a "drive-by" shooting, when gang members opened fire on youths arriving at a party. Five people were murdered in a matter of seconds. Still another shooting last Thursday brought the week's total to ten. The majority of the week's victims were innocent bystanders. Among...
While WT 15000 has the beetled brow, small cranium (700 to 800 cubic centimeters, about half that of modern man) and short forehead associated with virtually all human precursors, his size surprised the scientists. From the development of his teeth, they knew that the hominid died in his youth, about age twelve. But the length of his thigh bones and the size of his vertebrae indicate that he stood about 5 ft. 4 in. tall and may have weighed as much as 150 lbs. This was the size hitherto postulated by scientists for a full-grown Homo erectus...
Just this week, a new socialist discussion group was born when D. Joseph Menn '87 received approval for a Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Forum Says Menn, "I think there is only one serious left voice on campus--the Spartacus Youth League. And so I wanted to bring more groups from the Left here, give people an opportunity to hear more views." Menn says he plans a first forum on "the Socialist Left and Democratic elections" for the weekend before the national election...
Says Thomas N. Crean '86 of the Spartacus Youth League, a Marxist revolutionary group: "We feel that there is no fundamental difference between the candidates. Both represent certain class interests--those of the capitalist class. The alternative is to build a workers party, because a bipartisan class struggle can only be defeated through class struggle. We're for a workers' party to build a workers' government...