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...sent Navy jet fighters across the line (slightly north of the 32nd parallel, some 130 miles off the Libyan coast) in 1981, and shot down two Libyan planes after one attacked them. Two months ago the Navy sent two carriers steaming toward the gulf, but did not actually penetrate the disputed waters. This time, Navy officials insisted, a direct challenge to Gaddafi is "inevitable." As President Reagan told TIME last week, "Some ships and planes will cross that line," and "anytime our men are fired upon, we fire back." And now the Navy is better prepared for whatever might follow...
...gulf "to defend Libya's territorial waters." On Friday four Libyan MiG fighters headed toward the U.S. carriers, which were then about 300 miles offshore and well north of the point that Gaddafi calls "the line of death" and has staked out as his sea boundary (midway between the 32nd and 33rd parallels, 130 miles from the Libyan coast). When Navy jets were directed toward the Libyan aircraft, the Libyan pilots quickly turned back. "It looks like a cat-and-mouse game," observed a Western diplomat in Cairo...
...that race, the Rude and Smooth is seeded 32nd, immediately following what Wood calls his boat's "closest thing to a rival"--the Alte Achter crew...
...menaced all of Central Asia; of cancer; in Huhehot, Inner Mongolia. Because of his hereditary status, his large following and his cooperation with the new regime in Peking after 1949, Oqirhuyakt (the single-name form is common for Mongolians) became a regional official. The ashes of Genghis' 32nd-generation descendant will rest in the tomb of his illustrious ancestors on the Ordos Plateau...
...games don't even count in the ECAC standings. But somehow, when the first two Mondays in February roll around, the Beanpot suddenly seems desperately important to players and fans at Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Harvard. This year marks the 32nd time the quartet will fight it out for the unofficial championship of Boston college hockey...