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...asserted themselves with a win over Boston College in early December, ran their dual meet record to 2-0 with a 74-67 win over the Huskies. The women, who had been unable to top B.C., saw their record dip to 0-2 with a 69-44 loss...
Some of those foreigners actively helped the resistance. "We taught them how to make homemade Claymore mines and various antipersonnel devices," says Joseph Lammerding, an American engineer who worked for the Kuwaiti military. "You would take quarter sticks of TNT, which are commonly used in oil drilling, dip them in glue and roll them in buckshot," he explains. "Then you would set them off in the middle of a group of Iraqis. To make homemade plastic explosives, you would cook a mixture of diesel oil and powdered soap...
...equipment from abroad. At the same time, the embargo on Iraqi exports, especially oil, has cost Saddam $1.5 billion a month since he invaded Kuwait in August, leaving his nation without the foreign exchange it must have to offer as payment for smuggled goods. For now, Iraqi factories can dip into preinvasion stockpiles or obtain parts plundered from Kuwaiti factories. But by next spring or summer, Webster predicted, "only energy-related and some military industries will still be functioning...
Thus character has become the central issue in Minnesota, where Republican Jon Grunseth is trying to unseat Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich. Earlier this month, two women came forth with affidavits charging that Grunseth had encouraged them to remove their bathing suits and skinny-dip with him at his backyard pool at a July Fourth party in 1981. The women were 13 and 14 at the time. Insisting that the event never occurred, Grunseth called Perpich a "supreme liar" for denying that he had put the women up to making the charge...
...demographic squeeze. As the stock and bond markets continue to wilt, schools can no longer expect robust returns on their endowments, so they are struggling to refurbish their capital. Meantime, the days of bulging classrooms are long gone. The 1965-75 baby bust led to a 10% dip in the number of college-age students in the 1980s; the head count will plummet a further 25% by the mid-1990s. The ability of institutions to simply crank up tuition and fees has also hit a ceiling. Last spring Princeton scaled back a projected 6.9% hike in tuition, room and board...