Word: detroit
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Hurst seems to have recovered from his shaky first start last week against the Detroit Tigers in which the southpaw gave up five runs in six innings, but was not involved in the decision...
...physical force. When this monopoly dissolves, the state is in serious trouble. No country sits by quietly while its population riots, and there's no reason to demand that Israel do so. The Parisian police control their "manifestations," the United States put down riots in Newark, Watts, and Detroit in the sixties, and the Nicaraguan government chased the contras into Honduras. If you believe that Israel should exist as a state, you cannot deny its right to act like a state. There is no reason to believe that a Palestinian state would not similarly handle internal opposition. Palestinians have never...
...guess I'm a little lucky," Trammell said after his two-run homerun off Smith with two outs in the 10th inning gave the Detroit Tigers a 5-3 victory over the Red Sox in the first game of the 1988 season...
...Dukakis victory, since Michigan's generally low-turnout caucuses placed a heavy premium on organization and endorsements. Dukakis had both in excess: rival camps estimated that he spent up to $1.5 million in the state -- three times as much as any other contender -- and he boasted the backing of Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and most of Governor James Blanchard's political lieutenants...
...Dukakis was no match for the electric enthusiasm generated by Jackson's candidacy. Jackson not only ran up landslide margins in Detroit but also attracted a startling measure of white support, carrying cities like Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Saginaw. Nearly complete returns gave Jackson an awesome 54% of the total caucus vote, compared with Dukakis' 29%, while Richard Gephardt (13%), Paul Simon (2%) and Albert Gore (2%) trailed badly. Although the precise delegate breakdown remained murky at week's end, Jackson may have won half the 138 convention seats at stake. These figures were a further blow to Dukakis, whose...