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Residents in the Haggerty school district protested the proposed closing of their school. Leonard Russell, city councilman, said that closing the school would "ruin the community," adding that the residents of Haggerty would fight "tooth and nail" to keep the school open...
Intervention would ruin whatever chance the Kremlin leaders had of establishing rapport with the new Reagan presidency. The Soviets would also be throwing away what remains of detente not only with Washington but Western Europe as well. Concerted Western action was discussed in Brussels last week at the regular winter meeting of NATO foreign ministers. Quickened by the threat on Europe's own frontiers, they readily agreed to a joint response, with specific steps depending on the harshness of the Soviet action. Arms limitation talks would surely be suspended, and the West would probably withdraw from the Madrid Conference...
...overall in the U.S.) and the most arid (12 in. rainfall, vs. 29 nationwide). Yet in addition to their wild beauty, these Mountain States contain such a magnificent array of national treasures that they are now being developed at a rate that may within a lifetime enrich them, or ruin them, or both...
...decided that they'd had enough, and put a temporary crimp in Harvard's plans. But in another two weeks, a state bureaucrat who has spent eight hours a day for a year thinking about MATEP will tell Harvard whether it can install its diesels--a decision that could ruin those plans permanently...
...Royals and the Phils ruin their reputations as fall guys...