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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People who live in one of the cities of Ulster cannot escape the tension and constant fear of random violence, Hume says. Londonderry remains a city under military occupation. Instead of night-stick toting policemen patrolling the streets, British soldiers with automatic rifles are always visible. Soldiers stop shoppers as they pass through check-points throughout the city, searching their bags and parcels for bombs and weapons; people are accustomed to running wildly from a store after a bomb threat is announced...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Making a Just Peace in Ulster | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...Constant pressure by the Huskies again broke the Harvard defense ten minutes later when Dave Mattingly, amid confusion in front of the Crimson net, scored to give Northeastern a one-goal lead--the ultimate margin of victory...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Northeastern Tops Harvard J.V., 3-2 | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

Leading the Crimson attack was the line of Clasby, Mike MacKinon, and center Steve Andrews. That threesome produced both Harvard scores and combined to keep constant pressure on Northeastern during the power plays...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Northeastern Tops Harvard J.V., 3-2 | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...reason Harvard Hoope spends every season in a constant state of rebuilding is definitely complex. The gym is on the fourth floor of an old building, the coaches can't recruit, scholarships are forbidden, and there is little if any serious alumni support. However, Harvard basketball is almost always respectable. After one disastrous season, Michael is breaking out his shovel, but his burial plans are just a little early. Judging a very young and inexperienced team on the basis of its first four games is absurd, and any objective reporter, not to mention a home-town one, would not make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who is Savit? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

Uncanny-and that's just for openers. Sensual, wistful, fragile, spooky spring to mind, too. Just shy of 27, Sissy Spacek has already played such a variety of roles so smoothly that the only constant in her personality appears to be mutability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Basic Spacek: Keeping Life Tidy | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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