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Surprisingly, the freshmen generated the firepower: five of the eight goals and seven of nine assists came from firstgamers...
...capture of the hostages. Among the problems he faced on his return: unruly mobs, intermittent breaks in telephone and telex communications, and a power blackout that forced him to type one long report by flashlight. Arriving in Iran under extraordinary conditions, however, is not new for Van Voorst: nine months ago he was on the same plane with the Ayatullah Khomeini on his triumphal return from exile outside Paris...
...Houston. Under prodding from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has been hearing loud complaints about discrimination from the oil capital's black and Hispanic minorities, Houston shifted from a city council of eight members, all elected at large, to one of 14 members, with nine chosen from separate districts and the remainder chosen at large. Blacks thereby increased their representation from one to three, and State Representative Ben Reyes became Houston's first Mexican-American councilman. In addition, three women stand a chance of winning runoff elections for council posts, though no woman has ever...
...news was that the split on the committee was actually 8 to 7. The nine-vote formal majority included a waverer, Nebraska Democrat Edward Zorinsky, who voted for the treaty in committee as a courtesy to party leaders, but said he would oppose the pact in its present form on the Senate floor. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, who is not on the committee but is influential among Senate Republicans, also dealt the pact a heavy blow. He has decided to oppose the treaty because he doubts that the U.S. could adequately verify Soviet compliance with...
According to British intelligence, the supreme leader of the Proves is Belfast-born Gerry Adams, 31, a sometime student and bartender who has spent 4% of the past nine years in prison without being convicted of a serious crime. In the past three years, the British say, Adams has honed the Proves into a deadly terrorist force. Despite their small numbers -there are only 600 to 700 gunmen, organized into cells of four to six men each -they manage to tie down 30,000 troops and police. A top British officer in Ulster says flatly: "Gerry Adams runs the I.R.A...