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...Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping more than a second off the 1977 record held by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena. Coe's redoubtable double made him an early favorite...
...refugees it will admit as permanent immigrants. The United Nations is making plans for an international refugee conference, to be held in Geneva in mid-July. At week's end Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to Bali, along with the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to discuss the refugee problem with representatives of the countries that have had to deal with it firsthand-the ASEAN (for Association of Southeast Asian Nations) states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines...
DIED. Eric Partridge, 85, indefatigable English lexicographer and student of the language's quirks and conventions; in Devon, England. Born in New Zealand and educated in Australia and at Oxford, the tall, spare Partridge abandoned a budding career as an English professor (he feared he would become "a bloody bore") to devote himself to publishing and writing. Though he once turned out a novel in a month for his Scholartis Press in London, he gave up fiction to make a profession of his passion: the study of words. Over five decades, he compiled 16 erudite lexicons devoted to slang...
...current import quota of 1.5 billion Ibs. annually, or 5.5% of the total beef consumed in the U.S., is about as high as it can go. Because of beef shortages elsewhere in an increasingly affluent and meat-eating world, only Australia and New Zealand can increase their import allotments. Those two could be lifted by 50 million Ibs., to a total barely enough to meet one one-thousandth of U.S. beef needs. Local consumer boycotts, like New York City's "Beefless Wednesday" campaign, signal cattlemen that demand for beef is dropping and that further herd cutbacks are in order...
...weekend the dance festival will perform the new and repertory works of some of the lesser-known regional choreographers in the first of three "Dance Variations" programs, to be held at the Hotel Bradford Ballroom. The Dance Gallery of Northampton, Mass., the first modern dance group to tour New Zealand, will present works of resident choreographers Peter Schmitz and Kathreen Sanderson, while the Chortet Dance Ensemble will premiere Andrea Morris' and Kathryn Bresee's "Strush." Cambridge local choreographer Becky Arnold will present a solo performance of her own works, and the Impulse Dance Company will display the eclectic style (embracing...