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Crimson coach Loyal Park then followed with a somewhat unorthodox move, ordering intentional walks issued to the next two batters. With the bases loaded, Warren Chellman delivered a two-run single, and a sacrifice fly followed that, giving Army an 8-5 bulge. Harvard's last-ditch rally in the bootom of the inning then fell short when Leon Goetz bounded out with the tying and winning runs on base...
...Fran-jieh's replacement had been a major leftist condition for negotiations to end the 13-month-old civil war between Christians and Moslems, which has taken 16,000 lives. But fearing that Elias Sarkis, the Syrian-backed candidate, would win the election, Moslem forces launched a last-ditch effort to prevent the voting...
Recognizing that "the big ditch" is now more of a commercial convenience than a military necessity, the Ford Administration agreed last year to renegotiate the treaty. The aim was a gradual relinquishing of the present total domination of the canal and its zone by the U.S. Reagan in effect wants the U.S. to break off those negotiations. But Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen warned last week of the possibility of a repetition of the rioting and bloodshed that in 1964 erupted in Panama over this issue...
These subversive expressions of dissent hint at widespread frustrations among China's masses, which must trouble Peking's leadership. It seems clear that the leadership was apparently worried over further unrest and thus interpreted the demonstrations as a last-ditch effort by Teng and his supporters to counter the simmering, inconclusive ideological campaign against...
...Fourcade in effect accused the British of precipitating a crisis. He charged London with deliberately letting the pound drop in order to stimulate exports at the expense of Britain's trading partners-a charge that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey denied. Fourcade also made a last-ditch attempt to keep the franc in the so-called European snake -an arrangement that bound France, West Germany, the Benelux countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark to hold their currencies within a 4.5% range of fluctuation against each other. Fourcade proposed that the permitted variation be widened slightly, allowing the franc...