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...painful recollection: it couples the public anguish over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy with the private grief of veterans who gave back their war decorations as a gesture of protest and of families who gathered at fallen soldiers' gravesites. The final hours (the 13th is still being edited and will close the series Dec. 20) are to portray the collapse of the South Viet Nam regime in 1975, two years after the U.S. Army left, and the war's continuing repercussions in Southeast Asia...
Harvard may finally have caught on to all this. Army is missing from both the 1984 and 1985 football schedules. So who are the Cadets playing instead 'Don't spend Friday the 13th in New Haven...
UConn is a perennial college power--top ranked in New England and 13th in the country--and particularly tough at home. Harvard's tie was really more a measure of the team's character than its play...
Moore, 62, is still trying to write as an American. Cold Heaven, his 13th novel, traverses a terrain of the spirit as far removed from Belfast as the beach house in Malibu, Calif., where he now resides. His main characters are a California couple vacationing on the French Riviera. After a boating accident, the husband, a self-centered young physician named Alex Davenport, is taken to a local hospital with head injuries; a team of French physicians pronounces him dead. His widow Marie suspects foul play. "Did they kill him . . . because of what I didn't do?" she muses...
...Division are cracking down on what they believe is the widespread use of threats and violence to force migrants and other transients to work. Prosecutors have dusted off a set of slavery and peonage laws originally dating from the 19th century to fight this modern-day affront to the 13th Amendment, which forbids slavery. Next week the House Labor Standards subcommittee will convene hearings to evaluate the performance of federal agencies in enforcing current laws. In announcing the hearings, the subcommittee chairman, California Democrat George Miller, said, "The Constitution made slavery illegal over 100 years ago. It's time...