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...modern Havana convention center half empty. As many of the Cuban delegates milled in the foyer, drinking coffee and chatting, a fuming Castro grabbed the microphone and snapped, "We were just talking about discipline, and now some of the comrades are not even in their seats yet." Stung by the rebuke from their leader, the delegates began streaming back in, but it was an additional five minutes before Castro could renew his denunciations of government inefficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Whipping the Troops into Shape | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...political repartee. Last week Marcos accused his opponent of lacking femininity. The ideal woman, he said at a Manila rally, is someone "gentle, who does not challenge a man, but who keeps her criticism to herself and teaches her husband only in the bedroom." The President had been visibly stung by an earlier Aquino remark accusing him of cowardice for declining to campaign on the island of Mindanao, a hotbed of the Communist insurgency. Four days later Aquino told a warmly receptive audience of more than 1,200 Rotarians in Manila that Marcos was an "inveterate liar," and summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Test for Democracy | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard stung Lafayette, 68-58, last Thursday, but lost to St. Michael's by six points December...

Author: By Jessica Dorman and Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Dartmouth Trips Up Men Cagers in Ivy Opener; Harvard (3-7) Posts 1-2 Mark Over Winter Break | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

Linda DeBoer squared off against Crimson goalie Tracee Whitley in the battle of nerves, and stung a low liner into the right corner of the net for a 1-0 Princeton lead...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Tigers Top Booters, 3-0; Women Tumble to 4-7-3 | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Stung by cheap labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Industries That Want Help | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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