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...three days after the Gulf War had started, Kay was dozing in an armchair at his construction battalion's camp in Saudi Arabia, more than 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border. At 3 a.m. an exploding Scud missile jolted him awake. Before Kay had time to clamp on his gas mask, the acrid smell of ammonia assaulted his lungs, and he watched a whitish gray cloud drift over the camp. Says he: "Right after that, people started getting sick...
...United Nations is being determined in Somalia now. Only in the last few years has the U.N. had the strength and unity to attempt such large-scale operations. Concepts like humanitarian intervention are very much works in progress. Cynics and isolationists are just waiting for a failure to clamp a lid on future operations...
Luckily, Co-Captain Liz Berkery, the season-long savior and Harvard's leading scorer for the umpteenth game, stepped up to score a key goal that put Harvard ahead again 8-7. And--finally!--he defense was able to clamp down the rest of the way to preserve...
...Campbell will drive and try to take the layup, but opposing coaches look for this, too, and clamp down on the Leverett junior with a couple...
...break the clamp on Rullman and Campbell...