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Attempting to bounce back from a loss last weekend to defending national champions Brown, the women's heavyweight team journeyed to Lake Carnegie in Princeton to compete in the Class of '75 Cup versus the host Tigers and visiting Cornell squad...
...traveling re-education camp, and last week attorney Craig flew to Cuba and persuaded his client and Castro's inner circle that it would be better to let Juan Miguel come with just his new wife and baby, rather than wait for Washington to agree to play host to the circus. The Cubans wanted some assurances of a swift reunion. Craig told them that Reno's patience with the Miami relatives had run out and that the law was on Juan Miguel's side. INS officials were just waiting for Juan Miguel to set foot in America, and they would...
...Hutu like Joseph Havamungo, 29, and Nereciana Mushankwano, 20, wandered amid the huts strung together of relief-agency donated blue plastic sheeting, trash-can fires and hastily dug pit latrines and sought to scavenge the one thing that could sustain life in this place: hope. They were between countries. Host Tanzania didn't want them, and if they returned to Rwanda, they feared Tutsi would seek revenge for the genocide perpetrated by Hutu extremists just two years before. The landscape around the camp symbolized the prospects for the internees in it, scrubby hills that had been denuded of arboreal life...
Coincidentally, Okinawa will be the site of Mori's first major international appearance when he is host of the G-8 summit in July. That leaves him just three months to hone his diplomatic skills and demonstrate his potential as a national leader before he sits down with the heads of the industrial world's most powerful countries. On that occasion, his peers will be watching closely to see if Japan's new leader-by-default is anything more than a successful party infighter...
...much beneficence can one show bestow? Already credited with justifying the paychecks of ABC executives and resuscitating family television viewing, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is now inspiring Americans to support struggling authors. Last week, as part of his affable banter, host REGIS PHILBIN asked contestant BRAD HERZOG, a freelance magazine writer, about his book States of Mind, an American travelogue released last year by a small North Carolina publisher. "I didn't go on the show to plug my book," says Herzog, who won $64,000, "but I was happy to tell 30 million viewers." Before the show...