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...further and cut off all U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras, crippling if not ending the guerrilla war they are waging inside Nicaragua. There the fighting intensified last week, with the contras launching coordinated attacks from across the Honduran border in the north and along the swampy Costa Rican border to the south. Fighting was especially fierce at the southern town of San Juan del Norte, where the rebels were hoping to establish a provisional government. Contra commanders told TIME that they received American sea support for their operations at San Juan del Norte, a claim vehemently denied...
...would be foolish to ignore the progress which has been made in attracting minorities to Harvard in the past 20 years Since 1969 College enrollment of Blacks. Chieanos, Puerto Rican, and Native Americans has more than doubled. But Harvard remains disproportionately white and upper middle class--and in the last three years. Black matriculation has significantly decreased. This year's admissions statistics show that the decline will probably continue...
...black writer has an advantage because, being black, he has been forced to live in an isolated room in the nation's house, thus when he emerges from that room into the rest of the house, he knows the entire structure. So too for any Irishman, Chinese, Puerto Rican, a member of a minority religion or of none at all. Without a sense of unbelonging, one might never cast a critical eye on the majority culture, which in a way minorities cherish for their difference from...
...much rough-and-tumble in Yugoslavia over the judging of events as I would have in covering the Georgia primary," she says. Associate Editor Tom Callahan is a veteran of two previous Olympics, but this is the first in which he played a physical role. While interviewing Puerto Rican Luger George Tucker before a practice run, Callahan was asked by the athlete to help him get started. In view of his performance, Callahan felt like an accomplice to a crime. (Tucker wound up 30th of 30 finishers...
...been a wedding on the moon. Italians tossed snappy striped mufflers over their shoulders. The Canadians came as red-hooded Santas. Four men from Lebanon, all mustachioed, worked up small smiles. And, after cloaked Moroccans in bright burnooses, a one-man band ambled by: George Tucker, the famed Puerto Rican luger (win some, luge some) from Albany, N.Y. With "brakes on all the way," he breathlessly completed the necessary two qualifying runs, in which no particular times are necessary but survival is required. A chilled crowd, about 55,000 strong, was pleased with Tucker...