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This season the women have beaten No. 6 Arizona State, suffered a close 4-3 loss to No. 2 Northwestern and faced its closest loss to No. 1 Stanford of all teams that have competed against the Cardinals this year...
...least ten people were killed. Several British residents were beaten. An Indian businessman described how soldiers broke into his home, forced his family to lie on the living-room floor and then ransacked the house, stealing radios, money and a video recorder. They took "everything they could carry," he said. Marauders burned scores of buildings and shot up electrical facilities, causing blackouts in parts of the capital...
...this fall as a number of long-running hits have begun to sag in the ratings. Dynasty and Dallas, which finished one-two in last year's Nielsens, have slipped to the middle of the top-ten pack. Falcon Crest, another top-ten finisher last season, is now being beaten regularly by Miami Vice. The A-Team, last season's No. 6-ranked show, has dropped to 19th place, and Magnum, P.I., blitzed by competition from the new ratings champion, The Cosby Show, has fallen to a lowly 38th...
...which monitors detentions, denounced the curbs as "banning through the back door." Seven other former detainees appealed to the Supreme Court in Pretoria last week for an order that would prevent police brutality against prisoners held under emergency regulations in force since last July. The seven claim they were beaten, hooded with plastic bags, dunked in buckets of water containing tear gas and tortured with electric shocks. The case was dismissed on a technicality. Meanwhile, some 200 to 300 detainees being held at prisons in the Cape Town area reportedly began a hunger strike to protest their confinement. VIET...
Today save your pity for other hapless souls. Threshie and Anderson have transformed the Register into an aggressive, smartly designed daily that boasts what may be the best full-color reproduction in the country. The Register has also beaten back a determined raid into its area by the wealthier Times, which has vied to boost the readership of its Orange County edition (weekday circ. 164,000) with little success. The Register, by contrast, has upped its circulation since 1979 by 36%, to 274,000. The competition grew keener last spring, when the Register won a Pulitzer for its photographic coverage...