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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Game Winning RBI-DePaio. DP-Brandeis 2. E-Kay, Pakainis, Chenevey Caesar, Datre, Bonilla 3, Powers 2 LOB-Brandeis 6, Harvard 11 28-DiCesare, Maspons, Boutin Drogin. HR-McNamara (#), Pakainis (!), Boutin (!), Russell (%), Gray (10), SB-Kay DePaio, Powers 2. IP H R ER BB SO Harvard Chenevey W, 1-2 5 6 7 5 2 10 Marchese S, 1 4 3 2 2 2 3 Brandeis Lemoreuk L 2-2 3 11 15 8 4 0 Simensky 5 6 5 0 4 8 Russell...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: McAndrews, McNamara Extend McStreaks As Batsmen Humiliate Host Brandeis, 20-9 | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

Immediately after that operation last year, death threats fell down upon Colombia's Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, who had been leading a lone crusade against his country's bustling $5 billion-a-year cocaine trade. Less than two months later, in the streets of Bogota, two young hit men on a red Yamaha motorcycle pulled up alongside Lara's white Mercedes-Benz and pumped seven bullets into the 38-year-old minister. The killing electrified Colombia and enraged its government. "We've had enough," said President Belisario Betancur Cuartas, trembling with anger during his elegy to the slain minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Colombian drug crackdown began to pick up speed last April, when Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was murdered in retaliation for his strenuous antidrug efforts. The assassination, the first ever of a Cabinet-level official in Colombia's history, shocked the nation and persuaded President Belisario Betancur Cuartas to abandon his reluctance to enforce an existing extradition treaty with the U.S. Since then, 78 alleged drug traffickers have been requested by the U.S., and Betancur has signed extradition papers for six of them. According to the treaty, however, the Colombians must first face charges and serve sentences in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Drug Bang | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...unconditional declaration of war that Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartes issued from the pulpit of the cathedral in Neiva earlier this month. He had walked to the cathedral behind the flag-draped coffin of his slain Justice Minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 37. "There will be no truce for the narcotics traffickers," Betancur vowed, his voice trembling with emotion. "There will be punishment without mercy." The mourners broke into applause when the President declared, "The international drug criminals will see us standing proudly before a homeland that stands united in repudiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: War on the Cocaine Mafia | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 40, Colombia's Minister of Justice; by assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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