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...linksters now travel to Providence to oppose Brown University, Salem State and Boston College tomorrow afternoon. The squad's third match of the week will be a home encounter against the Rhode Island Rams on Thursday afternoon...
...banished for adultery, his stepdaughter jailed for fornication. "I have found it to be true," observes a friend, "that men who know what is best for society are unable to cope with their families." Some of Calvin's decisions have darker and more far-reaching echoes. Prefiguring Salem, he allows some 30 "witches" to be burned, drowned or hanged as scapegoats during an epidemic. And he becomes, like so many rebels, fiercely doctrinaire, letting the refugee heretic Michael Servetus go to the stake...
...Trident's officers immediately suspected that the Salem's sinking might not have been an accident; for one thing, the oil spillage was unusually small for a fully loaded tanker of that size. Then a talkative Tunisian crew member leaked the story to Senegalese authorities and new information quickly came to light. Detained in Dakar on charges of water pollution, Captain Georgoulis claimed that his ship's log had gone down with the ship. Local police, in piecing together the details, however, learned there was a 30-hour gap from the time of the first "mysterious explosions...
...complete lies." Last week Soudan was in Switzerland; he has pledged to furnish absolute proof of his innocence. South Africa's Minister of the Economy, Schalk van der Merwe, has insisted that his country's "hands are clean." Lloyd's, however, surmises that after buying the Salem's oil, South Africa then resold it, at a 10% increase, to Rhodesia...
Many of these crimes were apparently engineered by a small band of Greek and Lebanese merchant shippers operating from Piraeus and other Mediterranean ports. But the sinking of the Salem may have set a new precedent. Explains Eric Ellen, chief constable of the Port of London: "The Salem is the first such incident involving oil, but we knew it would happen because of the attractiveness of the cargo. It takes an event like the Salem to make people realize how horrific this problem has become...