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...little hell back at the Olympic Village, where Orwellian security measures were putting everyone on edge. Frustrations finally boiled over one night at the village discothèque, where several dozen Western athletes protested the customary 11 o'clock closing. As disco infernos go, it was pretty mild stuff: some boozy scuffling with Soviet police, a lot of hollering, a small-scale food fight. But Soviet officialdom took it very seriously, as a headline from TASS, the state news agency, made clear: THEY SHOULD BE THROWN BEHIND BARS...
...Georgetown University Hospital. There he will be debriefed by State Department officials and treated for multiple sclerosis, which U.S. doctors last week diagnosed as his affliction. The physicians who examined him at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, are optimistic that Queen will suffer only mild and transient effects from the disease...
...penalty was mild, he said, since white-owned firms continue to get the vast bulk of the nation's construction business, and Congress can legitimately require innocent whites to "share the burden" of making up for past discrimination so long as that burden is not unreasonable. In a concurring opinion, Justices Blackmun, Brennan and Marshall put less stress on the powers of Congress and more on the general principle that society must, in Marshall's words, promote "meaningful equality of opportunity, not an abstract version of equality in which the effects of past discrimination would be forever frozen...
...thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and himself. A later attempt at suicide succeeded, spurring Will to set out on a path as unlike his father's as possible: "God, just to get away from all that and live an ordinary mild mercantile money-making life, do mild sailing, mild poodle-walking, mild music-loving among mild good-natured folks." He sees now that "his little Yankee life had not worked after all," that his father tried to shoot him out of mercy rather than cruelty. The question posed...
While the Europeans generally hope to suffer only a mild slowing of economic growth, U.S. business continues to reel downward. Initial indicators showed last week that the American economy in the second quarter is declining at roughly an 8% annual rate, the second steepest drop since the Depression and the worst since early 1975, when the nation's business plummeted 9.1%. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall predicted that unemployment could reach 8.5% early in 1981, much higher than the 7.2% peak that the Administration had originally forecast. Housing continued to be one of the economy's weakest sectors...