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...aide, former pro-football player Roosevelt Grier. Around midnight Kennedy went downstairs and delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America, it revived memories of the killings of Kennedy's brother John and of Martin Luther King Jr. and shattered the dreams of those yearning for a return to Camelot. --By Daren Fonda
...Friday members of Charlie Rock burst into the southern city of Nasiriyah, fully expecting a battle with Iraqi forces. As their convoy roared toward the Tallil airfield south of Nasiriyah, the brigade's gunners and dismount crews oiled their M-16s and readied the grips on their .50-cal. turret machine guns. But the brigade commanders ordered the convoy to stop its advance. Mitchell and his unit sat on a highway shoulder for hours. When they finally arrived to seize their main target--the Tallil airfield, an Iraqi military installation--the company found only a weed-strewn apron of rusting...
...Cal mounted a comeback early in the second half, closing to 5-4 with 11:49 left to play. But sophomore Casey Owens appeared to seal the Crimson win, scoring with just 6:32 remaining...
...Harvard couldn’t hold on. The Golden Bears scored twice to tie the game, then gained possession in the final minute. Cal ran the clock down before Julian Wu dealt Harvard a heartbreaking defeat with just 12 seconds remaining...
...tenth mortar round landed and Jones poured more .50 cal in to the berm on the right. Rather's Barbarian 4 fired its 120 mm - this one painted, "Baghdad's Nightmare." Again the strike was good. ("I finally busted my cherry," Sgt. Rather would joke later.) Gratified again, this time in the ditches in front of the bungalow -a few seconds later another mortar exploded plum on the road, 40 meters ahead of Barbarian 2. "The Iraqi's have zeroed their distance," said Mitchell, as all three tanks in Micthell's track made a sharp reverse. "Let's show...