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Last week in an unusual naval operation, the Israelis finally retaliated. Israeli missile boats anchored under cover of night off the Lebanese ports of Tyre, Sidon and Sarafand. An elite crew of frogmen carrying timed explosives swam the two miles to shore and blew up 21 or more Lebanese fishing vessels. A few hours later, the boats sped safely back to Haifa...
...hard to say whether Slingerland resigned out of pride or because she thought the move would accomplish something, but most council members and U Hall observers seemed to regard it as an unusual exercise in futility. After the storm blew over, the council gave Expos a little more money and sent the office a nice conciliatory note--and next year, all freshmen will take Expos, under a new standardized curriculum. The whole affair is harldy likely to make anyone think that stormy resignations get things done at Harvard...
From January 27, 1973, to August 15, 1973, for six and a half months after the signing of the Paris peace agreement on Vietnam, American planes blew up, bombed, killed, massacred, razed, leveled, in a word undertook systematic genocide against the Cambodian people. The intensity of the bombing was carried further than ever before during the American war of aggression in Indochina or in the whole history...
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Greg Miller, a novice rower, said yesterday, "It was just a great race. We had practically all our margin by 1000 meters. We just blew them out; they couldn't keep up. We also rowed an incredibly smooth race...