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...That’s why we were able to just work on racing and train for [the Harvard-Yale-Princeton] meet a bit. We were working on our competitiveness and things that we might not be able to work on at some meets that would be much closer...
Because the Crimson shifted around the lineup, the meet against Brown was closer than it would have been had the swimmers participated in their primary events...
Many observers were dismayed at the arrests of Badal and Tohra. The daily Hindustan Times editorialized that the jailings were a "costly blunder" likely only to push the two Sikh leaders closer to terrorist elements. Gandhi vigorously defended the arrests, saying the "toughest and most aggressive" measures were needed. But by jailing moderate and militant alike, the Prime Minister seemed for the moment to have abandoned his 25-month search for a political solution to the Punjab problem...
Perot has slain dragons closer to home. In 1979 Texas Governor Bill Clements asked him to lead a local campaign against drugs. Perot spent more than $1 million of his own money on the effort, which resulted in laws that permit seizure of drug runners' assets. In 1983 he was named head of the Texas Governor's Select Committee on Public Education. In a 1½-year fight, Perot prodded the legislature to install teacher-competency tests and a "no pass, no play" rule for high school athletes. The chairman of the state board of education labeled Perot a "dangerous...
...missile launched Jan. 11 from Xichang Space Center was aimed at the Feng Yun 1C, a Chinese meteorological satellite drifting 535 miles above the Earth. But the strike - which smashed the seven-year-old orbiter into a cloud of space flotsam - may also have been directed at a target closer at hand. Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province, has long been the object of the mainland's saber-rattling missile tests and amphibious-assault war games. The demonstration of an ability to destroy satellites in orbit - belatedly confirmed by Beijing this week - could mean China is ready...