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...Harvard defense, led by Junior Co-Captain Ceci Clark and junior Sandra Whyte, held the Friars' attack in check during the first frame. But with 8:15 left in the contest, Providence netted its lone goal off a corner...
Talk about bipartisanship. Until two days before the election, Ben Bagert was the Republican Party's official nominee to run for the Louisiana Senate seat held by three-term Democratic incumbent J. Bennett Johnston Jr. But state representative and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was also in the primary race as a Republican, running a campaign that played on white resentment over affirmative action and welfare. Though polls gave Johnston about half the vote in the Oct. 6 primary, they also showed Bagert, a state senator, badly trailing Duke. That opened up the possibility...
Almost lost amid the hoopla was a meeting held on the same day in New York City between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. After five hours of discussion, capping more than 15 years of negotiation, the superpowers agreed "in principle" to reduce their conventional arms in Europe to the same level. Never before in history have two sides willingly agreed to destroy so many weapons...
...whole, American officials contend that the coalition so far has held together remarkably well. They note, for example, that sanctions usually begin to break down rather quickly but that the current alliance has drawn the embargo against Iraq ever tighter. The job, however, is far from done. The U.S. may have to hold the coalition together for months or even years, either to wage effective war against Iraq or to contain a Saddam Hussein who would remain a menace even after a withdrawal from Kuwait. That is a job that will guarantee continuing headaches. But there is no alternative...
Some analysts think they have detected a bipartisan "throw the bums out" mood building among the electorate this year. If so, it is a mood to be encouraged. Elections for the House and a third of the Senate will be held in less than a month, and the voters, having witnessed the spectacle in $ Washington, could do worse than simply elect challengers across the board. They could, as a matter of fact, do a lot worse; they could return all the incumbents for another term of madness. And if, two years hence, the voters are no longer willing to tolerate...