Sean LaBat

United States military involvement: Half an answer to question

The small nation of Nicaragua now aligned with the Soviet Bloc, threatens the security of the United States and its Central American allies. That is the reality of Nicaragua--a nation that on March 17 sent 2,000 of...

Durenburger: Worthy of re-election

Senator David Durenburger was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978 after defeating Robert Short who was nominated by a divided Democratic Farmer Labor Party. Mark Dayton, heir to the Dayton-Hudson line of...

Presidential candidates strengths, weaknesses explained

The assault has already begun, T.V. and radio waves are being permiated by ads for presidential candidates running in the DFL and IR precinct caucuses on February 23, 1988. At the time of this articles writing a...

The wrath of Sean

BHS senior shakes hands with "next president"

Senator Robert Dole of Kansas was photographed shaking hands with the crowds at the Minnesota State Fair. The picture, which appeared in the editorial pages of the Star Tribune last October 23, included a BHS senior,...

Congress crazy drivers will be

THE WRATH OF

April 2, 1987 The fools in Congress had not yet figured out their day had passed. They over-rode the presidential veto stopping the enactment of an "88 billion highway funding bill, but that's not what this column's...

Awards on the increase, evidence of greater strength for BHS students, faculty

BHS is on the move. We are establishing a strong reputation in Minnesota, Principal Nick Miller said concerning awards and honors that BHS students and faculty have been winning this year. Miller himself had only...

Social Studies teacher experiences court first hand as a juror

Economics and World Studies teacher Gerard Rohl was absent on jury duty from March 3 to March 25. He was foreman of the six member jury that found Ramsey County Judge Albero Miera guilty of battery against Court...

Oral Roberts gamble pays off

It was a Sunday in December when TV evangelist Oral Roberts, head of his own multi-million dollar university in Tulsa, Oklahoma appeared on his TV program and said that unless Oral Roberts University collected $8...

Both laudable and plausible

'Amerika' scenario is within reason

From February 8-15, ABC aired its controversial mini-series "Amerika." Its setting was ten years after a prospective Soviet takeover of the United States. "Amerika" received criticism from liberals as being...

Scandal accusation unfair to Reagan

In mid-December of 1986 the Central Committee of Minnesota's D.F.L. party made a decision that it should be ashamed of. They called for President Ronald Reagan's impeachment for what, if any, major role he played in...

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