Word: attacked
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...Soviets skirmish with the Chinese over boundaries, the Vietnamese annihilate a Communist regime in Cambodia, and now the Chinese attack the Vietnamese in retaliation for the Cambodian war [Feb. 26]. How can the various Communists expect the rest of us to believe that their type of government represents the apex of sociopolitical evolution when they can't tolerate each other...
Thoughts of a Northeastern team winning a Beanpot in anything did their best to unravel the usual crisp attack of the Huskies at the outset. Northeastern found itself on top only 1-0 at the end of the first, thanks mainly to some spirited back-checking and occasional offense by Harvard...
Stone, who could not be reached yesterday, spearheaded a freshman attack that saw all of Harvard's 52 points accounted for by members of the Class of '82. Adele M. Joel finished 11th in the 50-yd. breaststroke with a time of 32.54, then went one better and took 10th place in the 100-yd. breaststroke. Emily Feldman was the only other Crimson swimmer to reach the finals, taking 14th spot in the 200-yd. backstroke by posting a time...
DIED. Mustafa Barzani, 75, Kurdish nationalist leader who waged guerrilla war for 40 years in a futile attempt to win a homeland in northeastern Iraq for his people; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wishing to establish an autonomous Kurdistan for his 12 million Muslim tribesmen scattered throughout Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, Barzani led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Iraqi government in the mid-1930s. Fleeing to Moscow, where he spent twelve years in exile, he returned to his native land in 1958 to reorganize his guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After...
...causes all the machines in the mill to be stopped through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film makers to reach this big scene. It is the same with other sequences: company goons on the attack, the death of Norma Rae's father from overwork. There is an awful familiarity here and in Martin Ritt's conventional staging. The angles and editing are those of 30 years ago, and they seem less a reversion to classicism than a confession of creative failure...