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...Saturday's football game against UMass indicates that the days of good humor are gone--leaving behind only bad taste. In a string of "jokes" which left few of the 20,000 spectators laughing, the band made light of the recent deaths of Marines in Lebanon and the tragic downing of Korean Airlines flight 007. Thankfully for traditionalists, the group did wind up its act Saturday by awkwardly converting "UNION" into "PUKE"--certainly no mean feat...
Friends and scholars agree that Aquino's death means loss to the Philippines, made all the more tragic because Aquino's new, nonviolent approach to leadership offered promise for leading his country back to democracy. "It was a case of not only years wasted, but a waste of life," says Pye. "The country cannot afford to deny itself the benefit of a man like Ninoy...
...word it probably refers to the 747, now practically at a right angle to the Su-15. Although target had a tragic meaning in the skies over Sakhalin, it is airman slang for radar blip...
...Crimson basketball team lost a player in tragic fashion when John Harnice '84 drowned on July 30. A reserve forward with the varsity who played relatively little last season. Harnice died after an 80-ft. dive from a bridge near his Frankfort, Ky. home...
Barring any tragic incidents, Reagan's muscular foreign policy is likely to remain both flexed and relatively flexible. If Reagan has not quite donned the complete uniform of the world's policeman (the costume Presidents have worn for most of the 20th century) he has been swinging the nightstick as though he means it. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington