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Almost ten years have passed since the Turks invaded Cyprus. The U.N. has passed numerous resolutions condemning Turkey's actions and demanding the withdrawal of its troops, but to no avail. Unfortunately, no nation is willing to pressure Turkey into removing its forces, which would allow the Cypriots to rebuild their war-weary island...
...Harvard responded with its first good pressure since the early going, but 10 minutes later. Marcov lofted a high clearing pass from his blue line that turned into a scoring breakaway for Mark Henderson when it landed in the Crimson zone. Cleary vehemently protested to no avail, claiming Henderson was offside, waiting in the zone for the puck to come down...
Sokolov was arrested last year for accepting bribes. Some of the caterer's influential acquaintances appealed in his behalf, to no avail. After Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, 1982, his successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...
...antinuclear demonstrations, no matter how many miles they cover, will be of no avail until marchers reach across the borders to Moscow without being run down by Soviet tanks...
Iraq has searched for peaceful ways to increase its oil exports. Saudi Arabia tried to persuade Syrian President Hafez Assad to reopen the pipeline to the Mediterranean, but to no avail. Baghdad struck an agreement in principle with the Saudis to move oil across the kingdom to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. A completely new pipeline, however, would take at least four years to build. Meanwhile, the Iraqis are trying to rebuild their facilities...