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Whether or not it received help from the sea, the assault force did get other kinds of discreet aid. According to their commanders, the new 82-mm mortars and 50-cal. machine guns that the contras used at San Juan del Norte were delivered ten days earlier by a U.S.-built C-47 transport, which also dropped pallets of food and ammunition under cover of darkness at a Costa Rican site ten miles south of the Nicaraguan border. An A.R.D.E. soldier who is a U.S. citizen, George Davis, of Great Falls, Mont., claimed the pilot was an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mysterious Help from Offshore? | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

Thus Harvard falls in line behind three other major research universities--MIT. Stanford, and Cal Tech--in opposing the proposed rules, which would amount to a basic subverting of long-standing University commitments to free and open inquiry. The Pentagon proposal would give government officials veto power over the publication of research results funded by the government and deemed to be "sensitive" from a national security perspective--an unacceptable proposition given University norms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gagging the Latest Gag Rule | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

...Encino, Cal, native shared the outstanding free throw shooter award with junior Bob Ferry. Both players hit over 90 percent from the line, as Harvard established an all-time collegiate free throw percentage record (82-2 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Hoop Awards | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...household linens, china and a full line of jewelry going for $500 to $20,000 a bauble. In addition, and addition is the point, there will be a new perfume named for Krystle ($150 an ounce). On her own, Evans is lending her name to a new low-cal drink called Crystal Light. Won't all this crass commercialization muddy the good Carrington name? Nonsense, nothing sticks to the Carringtons. So why should this stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 1984 | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...Robin Yount and Cal Ripken broke a two decade trend by winning the MVP award as shortstops. Name these shortstops who won the MVP; American League, 1950; National League, both 1958 and '59; NL., 1960; NL, 1962; AL, 1965. Two points each...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: The 1984 Sports Cube Baseball Quiz | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

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