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Israeli pilots released red balloons to deflect the scores of Strellas that streaked toward them...
...half, Northeastern, taking advantage of five succesive penalty corners, flung a barrage of shots toward the Harvard goal. Three of those shots slipped past Katsias, who was charging out of the goalie's box on the penalty corners. But on each occasion defender Jane Grim slipped into position to deflect the shot...
Like many women, Rosenberg admits to great ambivalence on the issue. "If women as a group are allowed special benefits, you open up the group to charges that it is inferior. But if we deny all differences, as the women's movement has so often done, you deflect attention from the disadvantages women labor under." Either way, she says, women can lose: "I'm a historian, and I know the disadvantages of both sides...
Fowler, far more urbane and polished, is stronger in Atlanta. He has a wry sense of humor, which he uses to deflect Jordan's charge that he is too far to the left. It reminds him, Fowler smiles, of the time he was marching in a small-town parade and heard an old country boy on the sidewalk growl, "That Fowler even looks like a liberal, don't he?" With its city-slicker vs. good- ole-boy flavor, the Fowler-Jordan race is in some ways a reflection of the Bond-Lewis contest...
Washington Mayor Marion Barry Jr., who has been criticized for failing to build new jail cells, found a way to deflect further censure: the city administration charged that Monaco's report helped trigger the riot. Inmates who saw accounts of the report, city officials claimed, concluded that they would be set free if they destroyed the prison. Some convicts actually packed their belongings in plastic garbage bags before the buildings were set afire. A number of prisoners did escape Lorton afterward, but not to freedom. Nearly 500 of the 1,300 inmates involved were shipped to other area jails...