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...balloting resoundingly vindicated. In contrast to the rhetoric of the campaign, when Duarte supporters called their opponents ARENAZIS and D'Aubuisson campaign workers accused the Christian Democratic leader of being a Communist who would hand the country over to the guerrillas, election day was part festival, part family outing. As street vendors hawked papusas (stuffed corncakes) and ice cream near polling stations, uniformed soldiers casually stood by. Voters chatted, joked and waited pa1tiently in line for hours to cast their votes under the watchful" gaze of vigilantes (poll watchers) decked out in the red-white-and-blue colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Voting for Moderation | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

Maspons, the team's leading hitter in league games (.471), went five for eight yesterday with three doubles. Freshman catcher Jim DePalo (.368 overall) extended his hitting string to 12 games with his five-for-seven, five-RBI outing. Sophomore third baseman Bobby Kay (.326) socked three doubles and a triple. The list goes...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Baseball Wins Pair To Clinch League Title | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

Vallone said he has thrown "a little b.p. [batting practice] in the cage" since tossing two thirds of an inning last year. That appearance--a two-run outing against Boston College--was his college debut...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Vallone, Schindler Make Their Pitch | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

...next day had mixed fortunes in store for the Crimson. They came up with 13 hits, including a 4-for-5 outing by third sacker Lisa Rowning, to shut out Cornell 10-0 Freshman hurler Janet Dickerman allowed only three hits in the rout...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Batwomen Take Fifth in Ivies | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...grieving memoir reveals the dark side of the immigrant experience and the author's love for his father: the lifelong failure who "came to Montreal as an in fant, his father fleeing Galicia. Pogroms. Rampaging Cossacks. But, striptease shows aside, the only theater my father relished, an annual outing for the two of us, was the appearance of the Don Cossack Choir at the St. Denis Theater. My father would stamp his feet to their lusty marching and drinking songs; his eyes would light up to see those behemoths, his own father's tormentors, prance and tumble onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Listen to the Mockingbird | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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