Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rice-growing district near the broad Ganges, fell into a restless sleep on the night of March 25. Without warning, 13 Jeeps and trucks came to a halt outside Kushtia's police station. It was 10:30 on the night the war broke out. Delta Company of the 27th Baluch Regiment had arrived from its base at Jessore cantonment 60 miles to the south. The 147 men of the company quickly disarmed some 500 Bengali policemen without meeting any resistance and then occupied four additional key points: the district police headquarters, the government office building, the VHP radio transmitter...
John Rikert had his best time of the year in the cross country race Friday, finishing 16th out of a field of 60, and Dick Compton came in 27th...
Brot Coburn wound up in 24th place while John Boyle and Dick Compton noshed 27th and 28th. That's last and next-to-last places...
...months ago Uganda's President Apolo Milton Obote boasted that he was "perhaps the only African leader not afraid of a military coup." Last week Obote was proved to be more foolhardy than farsighted as his army staged Black Africa's 27th coup d'état in little more than a decade. Random battles raged from Kampala, Uganda's lovely capital city in the hills beside Lake Victoria, to Gulu in the north. At the Entebbe International Airport, a rebel tank clanked up to the front door and fired a shell at the far wall...
...disclaim any desire to monopolize the CRIMSON's Letters-to-the-Editors column, for just today (Jan. 27th) you kindly carry a longish correspondence from me; but to-today's CRIMSON reports an address by Dr. Chase Peterson, Dean of Admissions in Harvard College, to a group of "Jewish faculty members," and I, along with other Faculty members with whom I have spoken, consider this report extremely disturbing. For my part, the perturbation is two-fold...