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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reign of Uganda's "President-for-Life" Idi Amin Dada apparently came to an end last week. An invading force of Tanzanian soldiers and Ugandan rebels, after two weeks of skirmishing on the outskirts of Kampala, finally captured Uganda's capital city. At week's end Big Daddy had been missing for several days, although he was thought to be holed up with a handful of loyal troops in the vicinity of Jinja, 50 miles east of Kampala, on Lake Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Rejoicing and Revenge in Kampala | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...University finds difficulty in accepting the reality that we are out of the days of Hamilton Fish. The promise of athletic excellence that McLaughlin wants can't be achieved easily, because the great athletes who went Ivy in the early 1900s now go Big Ten or Pac Eight...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Old Harvard and New Wave | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...captain Glen Fine said last night we need three things for a successful basketpall program: a new arena, a 6-ft. 10 in. anchor man, and another full-time coach. Harvard wants to make it with half an arena, a big forward and a part-time assistant...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Old Harvard and New Wave | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...Big Flo" and "Baby Flo", the inflatable whale balloons, flew above Boston yesterday in honor of Mayor Kevin White's proclaimed "Save the Whale...

Author: By Natalie S. Bigelow, | Title: Whale Balloons Fly Through City Streets | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...Big Flo," 100 feet long, took off from City Hall Plaza at 8 a.m., and "Baby Flo" took off from Fanueil Hall at noon. The smaller of the two gaseous giants, a mere 40 feet long, migrated down Boylston St. from the Christian Science Center to Copley...

Author: By Natalie S. Bigelow, | Title: Whale Balloons Fly Through City Streets | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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