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According to Soviet spokesmen, who were uncharacteristically prompt in providing details on the disaster, the ships collided at 11:15 p.m. Eight minutes later the liner sank in 155 feet of water. Many passengers managed to make it into the sea, but hundreds were trapped in crushed or flooded staterooms. As the ship slipped under, nearly 400 people went to their death in one of the worst acknowledged shipping disasters in Soviet history...
...Spokesmen for the State Department did not comment on Shultz's speech, but they said the text was still being revised last night...
Officials involved in presenting Harvard's story to the media say they are very satisfied with the stories that have been written about the College and its birthday. Press spokesmen also deny that there has been any effort to hide the unsavory parts of Harvard's past...
...complicate matters, the 350th Coalition forDivestiture, composed of the Harvard SouthernAfrican Solidarity Committee and Cambridgeactivist groups, has declared in press conferencesand leaflets that it will demonstrate outsideShultz's convocation address. Spokesmen for thecoalition have said these demonstrations would benon-violent...
...even as they announced the Chief Executive's bold plan to use "the full power of the Presidency" to counter illicit drug use, Mr. Reagan's spokesmen were forced to make a humbling admission: that there are no plans underway to increase funding for drug-treatment centers already overwhelmed by the increased abuse of crack and devastated by previous cutbacks in federal subsidies. But that should come as no surprise. For years, while his wife has toured the country spouting anti-drug rhetoric, Ronald Reagan's budgetary priorities have overlooked drug-abuse prevention and rehabilitation programs...