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...ventilation will undoubtedly be a problem when an exercise room is located underground and is barely able to grasp air through its barred windows leading to the glorious outdoors. It sounds like a prison, but really it's great. Where else can you sample a bit of body odor from each of your schoolmates...
...August 1, 1944, the Polish Underground resistance started fighting the Nazis on the streets of Warsaw. The city erupted in a valiant rebellion. But the rocks and slings of these modern-day Davids were no match for the armor of the German Goliath. The Soviet Red Army, parked only 10 miles from Warsaw, coldly watched thousands of Poles being slaughtered. The Western democracies were outraged and this became one of the prime pieces of evidence on the side of those who believed that the Soviets could not be trusted in the post-war world...
WHILE FRANCE IS TAKING ALL THE BLAME and is the focus of protests for raising nuclear fears, China has kept on performing underground A-bomb tests, and does not get even one-tenth the media attention the French experiments do. Why are the Greenpeace activists always ready to move forward and promote all kinds of demonstrations when the event involves a Western corporation or government, particularly the French? And why do they keep a low profile or even a significative silence when similar actions are performed by a socialist nation like China? Come on, guys, if you really mean...
...campus's underground fraternities and sororities (F&Ss) are holding their fall rushes and pledges this month. While we see few effects of the rush--outlandishly dressed pledges and associated marauders--on a daily basis, the effects of F&Ss' illegitimate presence on campus runs deep...
Beyond Mururoa's reef, a high seawall protects the atoll from natural storms and from tidal waves occasionally heaved up by the underground nuclear explosions. A second, lower seawall also surrounds the atoll. The single entrance to the lagoon within is only a few yards wider than the beam of a medium-size oceangoing ship. Protest vessels have been aiming at this breach since 1972, and last month the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II, a successor to the Rainbow Warrior blown up by the French at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985, was rammed by a French warship as it tried...