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...become a just society, it must bear in mind that the level of resistance among the Afrikaners will rise sharply if external pressure should be mounted against them. The temptation to dictate specific solutions to South Africa must be avoided. Whatever pressure is exerted must be directed simply to ward bringing all parties together around a conference table...
Despite his youth and choirboy looks, the 5-ft. 6-in. Kucinich (pronounced Koosin-itch) is a savvy veteran of Cleveland's bruising ward politics. The son of a truck driver, he grew up on the city's ethnic, working-class West Side (his father is Croatian, his mother Irish). At 23, he won a seat on the city council and six years later was elected clerk of courts, the city's second highest elective office. A maverick Democrat with a strong anti-Establishment bias, he has built his power base among poor and working-class voters...
...Mike Ward...
...year and a half, from 1969 to late 1970. "Dad came to me," says Robin, "asked me to make it up. I told him, 'Go 'way, Dad, or I'll put a pair of cement shoes on you.' Then he tried to make me a ward of the court." It was the brotherly bond that finally forced a reconciliation. "If we hadn't been related," Robin speculates, "we would probably never have gotten back together...
...cannon and the rainy weather to bring the score to 6-2 midway through the third period, when they found themselves with a man up, but a Bluejay fast-break goal shattered any upset hopes. The final count was 11-4, with Mike Faught (2), Steve Martin, and Mike Ward providing the Crimson goals...