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Here's more: Next Monday night against Boston University, the Crimson will win the Beanpot. Coach Bill Cleary will crush the heavy boulder that has rested on his back for the last eight years, and life will be good again...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Why Harvard Will Win at the Garden | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...staunch anti-Communist, was targeted for his role in turning sections of Honduras into bases for the U.S. military and the U.S.-backed contras, who have been fighting to topple the Sandinista regime next door in Nicaragua. Cinchoneros leaders indicated they were avenging Alvarez's brutal attempt to crush their movement in the early 1980s, as well as the former general's part in the disappearance of 120 alleged subversives. Whatever the motive, Hondurans fear that growing political violence could turn their once placid nation into the Lebanon of Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras: Death of An Ally | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...humane or to crush the intifadeh. -- The shaky fortunes of Gorby Inc. -- El Salvador's latest terror. -- Will the Khmer Rouge wreck Kampuchea's peace hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 5 JANUARY 30, 1989 | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

CHESS London's frantic multimedia hit was rewritten for Broadway as a tender, doom-struck musical meditation on how East-West politics crush individuals. Trevor Nunn's trademark cinematic staging gave narrative clout to the best rock score ever produced for the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of '88: Theater | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...Flight 103 had pulled away from Terminal 3 at London's Heathrow Airport. Takeoff was 25 minutes late, but that was hardly unusual in the midst of the Christmas travel crush at one of the world's busiest airports. Among the 258 passengers were some 49, many of them U.S. servicemen, who had arrived from Frankfurt on a connecting flight, and 35 undergraduates who had been on an overseas study program sponsored by Syracuse University, as well as four U.S. State Department employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror In the Night: The Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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