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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, however, Harvard came back to avenge its March 30 defeat at the hands of Kentucky in the Blue-Gray Championships...

Author: By Steve Li, | Title: Netmen Settle Kentucky Feud After Losing Tennessee Tussle | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

After trailing for part of their opening match of the round robin competition, the aquawomen came back to defeat Brown, 10-7, as Co-Captains Kelley Withy and Catherine Ysrael...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: orts Wrap Sports Wrap Sports Wrap Sports V | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Ortega Saavedra. It was the second time he had undercut a potential victory in Washington: four days after the House had rejected contra funding eleven months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that he "had heard a rumor that Daniel Ortega is secretly on the payroll of one of our intelligence agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pouncing on a Transgressor | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Tenth-ranked and first-time opponent ArizonaState handed the netwomen a 6-3 defeat before theCrimson finished up its West Coast swing with aloss to fifteenth-ranked University of Arizona...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Netwomen Come Home, End 1-5 West Coast Skid | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson proceeded to defeat Cal State-Long Beach, ranked 15th in the nation, by a score of 5-4 when Stanley and Paul Palandjian won the decisive match at third doubles...

Author: By Steve Li, | Title: Netmen Successful in Break Tournaments | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

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