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...student helping to promote last Right's R E M concert was apparently robbed yesterday of $1000 in cash intended as payment for the support hind Husker Du...
...force if reason failed. In 1970 Trudeau became the first Prime Minister in history to invoke Canada's War Measures Act in peacetime, sending the army into the streets of Montreal and Quebec City to deal with terrorist kidnapings by the separatist Front de Libération du Québec By 1975 Trudeau's reputation as a powerful leader had dimmed. In the 1979 election his Liberals lost to the Conservatives; six months later he announced that he was stepping down as Liberal leader, declaring that he "was not the man to rebuild the Liberal Party...
...particularly appropriate that you're in the Soviet Union as I write now. You're right about Colby College. They banned fraternities officially just a while ago. Bob Ruzzo DU put it best: "History has repeated itself once again, as a Bolshevik minority has succeeded in confiscating the property of the 'haves' in order to re-distribute it and achieve an equality of mediocrity under which all will suffer. As with other revolutions, repression of familial ties [as represented by fraternities and sororities] is a key ingredient of success "What a coincidence, Muffy, is it that there is no freedom...
...Reagan Administration has approved some of the biggest corporate mergers in history: Du Pont and Conoco, U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil and, tentatively, Texaco and Getty. Last week, in a stunning reversal, it blocked the planned marriage of LTV and Republic Steel. Proposed in September, the deal would have created the second-largest steel company in America, behind U.S. Steel. Assistant Attorney General J. Paul McGrath, named two months ago to succeed William Baxter as the Justice Department's antitrust chief, said the merger would violate the Clayton Act, which bans excessive concentration in any industry...
...sense, this entire album represents what one can achieve through force of will. Husker Du's lyrics may be didactic, but they never become too preachy, too cliche, or too trite. And even though the band may present a harsh, discordant, and even at times bitter vision of life, they never resort to easy cynicism or nihilism. Thorough sheer commitment, and abrasive intensity this group might help to point the stagnant rock of the present in a direction that will become as rich and exciting as the punk movement from which it has broken away...