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...young Boston University team in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament at Boston Garden, and facing the Terriers right after exams is hardly a savory prospect. So at the very least the Penn game will give the Crimson skaters, including newly returned Dan DeMichele, an adequate chance to regain their pre-exam form- which was becoming more and more impressive with each game...
Compounding the horror of Biafra was the moral ambiguity that enveloped it from the first. Great powers and small became involved in the conflict, frequently for questionable reasons. The Soviet Union, eager to regain a foothold in Black Africa, delivered arms to help crush a rebellion that Moscow would, in another context, have hastened to hail as a "just war of national liberation." Britain, worried about African balkanization, Soviet influence and its own oil interests, supplied weapons to the Nigerians. The British were also concerned with preserving a state that its colonial officers had nursed to nationhood...
McDermott said the hospital plans a 100-day crash program to correct the deficiencies pointed out by the commission and regain accreditation. Although he said he was confident that the hospital could correct most deficiencies before June, "until we have a totally new physical plant, you can go through this hospital and see all kinds of problems...
Broker's Role. Basically, the U.S. is trying to regain leverage for itself among the Arab states-an attempt the British and French have been making in order to diminish Soviet influence. Thus, when the Israelis described the U.S. moves as appeasement, Rogers objected to the word. "It suggests that the Arabs are enemies of the U.S.," he said. "Of course that isn't true...
...money-losing operations, and an office within the Department of Transportation to manage basic passenger services-in effect, a quasi-nationalized system. The plan is anathema to most proponents of private enterprise; yet, as even the railroads concede, it seems to be the only way that the U.S. can regain the quality of railroad passenger service that Europe and Japan still enjoy...