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...because Harvard has a good running game to turn to, quarterback Chuck Colombo won't have to take his chances with Fuller if he doesn't care to. Last week, in his debut as the starting signal-caller, Colombo directed a well-balanced offense, as the Crimson gained 164 yards in the air and 274 on the ground. If he lets his running backs go to work again, it may nicely complement the softness of the visiting defense against the run--472 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground against UMass in two games...
...some places the city resembled a ghost town, in others a smoldering battlefield. Throughout Sri Lanka's palm-fringed, seaside capital, Colombo (pop. 586,000), shops were shuttered and restaurants were closed. Small groups of helmeted troops patrolled the empty streets, with instructions to shoot curfew violators on sight. But those tough measures may have come too late. During the previous five days, bands of Buddhist Sinhalese, 50 to 100 strong, had smashed, burned and plundered thousands of houses and shops belonging to predominantly Hindu Tamils. In Colombo's jail, 52 Tamils had been bludgeoned to death...
...Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...government's decision to go public with charges that had until then appeared only in the form of rumors and leaks in Italian newspapers has created one of the worst crises in years between a NATO country and a member of the Warsaw Pact. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo announced that the Italian government had taken measures to reduce sharply Bulgaria's diplomatic presence in Rome and to make it harder for Bulgarians to enter Italy. He expressed concern that Bulgaria's action, if proved, would have grave consequences for East-West relations. Said he: "It would...
...allies. In the absence of detailed information about the evidence in Italian hands, most Western diplomats and intelligence officers remained cautious. The U.S. refused to make any statement supporting or denying the Italian charges. In Paris French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson noted that "the Italians are serious people. [Colombo] would not have taken the steps that you know about if there had not been some Bulgarian elements involved...