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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who holds claim to probably the longest political memory in the city, has not forgotten the city council's effort three years ago to prod the Overseers and Harvard generally into assuming public accountability for its influence on city tenants. The Overseers stalled against a report for three years, and now Wikins has called off the whole shebang, but Vellucci has pushed for a meeting between Harvard and city officials this spring...
...sequence of events has become sadly familiar. Heavily populated (92 million) and desperately poor (per capita in come: $90 a year), the country has en joyed little political stability in the decade since it broke away from Pakistan after a savage civil war. Its first and longest period of democratic rule ended abruptly when Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the independence movement and subsequently became the country's first elected Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1975. In a trio of coups, Lieut. General Mohammed Ziaur Rahman emerged as strongman, only to be assassinated by junior officers last May. Sattar...
...error. But controllers saw no reason for alarm. Other radio links were available for transmitting the information, which, in any case, was not needed for a safe landing. So after a few nervous moments, the astronauts could look forward to spending a full week in space, Columbia's longest flight to date...
Whatever else it may be remembered for, the presidency of Ronald Reagan has already been firmly linked with one happy economic achievement: the start of the wind-down of the longest sustained inflationary surge in the nation's history. A year ago, the woozy U.S. economy was wobbling atop a seemingly endless inflationary spiral, traumatizing families everywhere with the vision of a lifetime of work and savings being eroded to nothing by the whirlwind of runaway prices...
...Harvard, ferocious forechecking should once again be the key to having tough defense and putting a lot of points on the scoreboard. Wade Lau has not allowed a goal in his last 151 minutes of play, as far as anyone knows the longest a Harvard goaltender has gone without allowing a score in modern times except for Bruce Durno's 152:40 back...