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...Yeruham Meshel, the organization's secretary-general: "This government is indifferent to the public's mood." Other critics demanded the resignation of Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, often called Yigal the Printer for his willingness to issue new currency to keep up with inflation. Seeing the Begin government thrown on the defensive, the opposition decided to strike...
Anderson, among the most powerful players on the pro circuit, was out-maneuvered by controlled volleys and well-disguised winners, the tactics Desaulniers used to such success to wreck his college opponents. Continually thrown off-balance and forced to anticipate too soon, Anderson could not threaten Desaulniers' command of the match at any point...
...second time this season (the first being way back on September 28 against B.U.) hats were thrown for Ferrante, as she blasted in her third goal of the game, unassisted, at 27:23 of the half, giving Harvard an unreachable 4-2 advantage...
...Relations Committee, was the No. 1 target of the Republicans. One after another, the big G.O.P. guns-Reagan, Gerald Ford, Senator Orrin Hatch-came to Idaho to fire away at the Senator. For more than a year, conservatives belonging to A.B.C. (Anybody But Church) had been sniping at him. Thrown on the defensive, Church, 56, had to spend most of his time explaining himself. In the end, Idahoans were unpersuaded and rejected him in favor of Republican Congressman Steven Symms...
...Khmer Rouge began methodical destruction of every vestige of religion. Christian ministers were slaughtered and Muslim mosques destroyed. The greatest indignities, however, were reserved for Buddhists, who constituted 90% of Kampuchea's population. Insurgents fresh from the jungle looted the country's 2,800 temples. "Buddhas were thrown into rivers or used as firewood," recalls Oum Soum, 62, deputy director of Phnom-Penh's Buddhist Institute. "Wats not destroyed became fertilizer warehouses." Bonzes were denounced as "parasites." The lucky ones were merely driven from their temples and into the fields. Of 80,000 Cambodian monks...