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...information was relayed to an intelligence-gathering AWACS circling high above, and then to Admiral Smith in London. He contacted Colonel Martin Berndt, commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit on the Kearsarge, a helicopter carrier sailing in the Adriatic. "What do you think?" asked the admiral. "I think we can get him," replied Berndt. Smith immediately gave the go-ahead, and Berndt roused 51 Marines-including 10 helicopter crewmembers-sleeping below decks; it was shortly after 3 a.m. At about the same time, Lake approached the President back in Washington, where it was around 9:30 p.m. "It looks...
...season could be characterized by a typical weekend such as February 24th and 25th. A Harvard squad of old turned things around in a 5-3 win at RPI, as Martins seemed to be all over the ice and the Engineers in the Friday night shootout. But the Mr. Hyde of the weekend again bore his ugly head--Union scored early and often on Saturday, before Harvard made it close late in a 5-3 loss...
After 17 years of service, Nathan Marsh Pusey '28, the 24th president of Harvard University, announced that he would retire in June from the post he had held since...
...Adriatic Sea, and now await adecision by the Clinton Administration on whether to send them into Bosnia. The White House said it "would not rule out" ground action to release the nearly 400 UN hostages currently held by Bosnian Serb forces. ButTIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays sending the 24th Marine Amphibious Expeditionary Unit after the hostages is highly unlikely. "In the first place, it's an amazingly difficult mission to expect these Marines to find 400 people in these mountains where the Serbs have lived for hundreds of years." More important, according to Thompson, is that sending in the Marines...
...Friday, two weeks shy of her 24th birthday, the singer, now known simply as Selena, was shot to death in a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. The accused assailant was a former employee, Yolanda Saldivar, 32, who once headed Selena's fan club and later ran a boutique owned by the singer. Saldivar was arrested after a nine-hour standoff with police in the parking lot of the Days Inn. The only explanation offered for the killing came from Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, who suggested that Selena's meeting with Saldivar at the Days Inn was about financial irregularities...