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...fire at an army ammunition depot near Delémont on the French border recently, authorities found the letters FLJ-"Front de Libération Jurassien daubed on in fresh paint. The front is the more militant of two organizations representing dissident Swiss in the Jura region of Bern canton...
...French-speaking Jurassians*, who are mostly Roman Catholic, have long been embroiled in a battle for ethnic survival with the German-speaking Protestants who dominate Switzerland's richest, most populous canton. In recent years, demands for autonomy have revived and the Jurassians have formed aggressive organizations...
...Division this winter. True, they have been an ECAC finalist in each of the past two years, but each time they had home-ice advantage, something they lack tonight. And Cambridge is not the only place where they have trouble. The Knights have lost at Durham, Philadelphia and Canton, N.Y., this year, too. HARVARD, by 2 in a tight game...
...Harvard ski team will compete in its last major event of the year, the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association championships, this weekend at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. The prospects of a Crimson success, however...
Cooped-Up Rebels. Though one of his forebears had been appointed the first resident consul in Canton by President James Madison, it was mostly wanderlust that led the Missouri-born Snow into a lifelong love affair with China. After earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and working as a reporter briefly in Kansas...