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Half-way through your two-and-a-half hour ride, and with a six pack left in your case of Molson's, the monotonous drone of the Mass Pike and towns like Natick, Hopkinton, and Framingham begins to promote a sinking feeling along with the beginnings of what will hopefully be a three-day buzz. The Game will last only three hours, at most, and that's if Ron Cuccia takes his time in the Harvard huddles You ask yourself and your friends: What are we going to do in New Haven, which even Yalies call the armpit...
...enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews who are able to see their target destroyed is incalculable...
America may be catching up with even this sport of outcasts, though. In the middle of the field at the hill's bottom, there were a dozen campers. Next to one sat a middle-aged couple in lawn chairs, out there in the middle of the heat and the drone of the engines. After a while, their son returns, walking his motorcycle. "I won the 12-and-under," he says with a smile. His mother hugs him; his father beams and says, "He usually wins, you know." This family, which lives in New Hampshire, travels around New England to hill...
...threat and the danger were still there. Syrian SA-6 missiles last week streaked into the sky over the Bekaa Valley to down at least one Israeli reconnaissance drone. Israel and Syria remained at loggerheads over the deployment of the Soviet-made missiles, and there was always the grave risk that one side or the other could miscalculate and ignite the region in conflict. But for the first time since the confrontation began, there was cautious optimism in both Jerusalem and Damascus that U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, 61, might succeed, through his patient, peripatetic diplomatic shuttle, in fashioning...
...demand that the missiles be removed from Lebanon and threatened military action. It was not as though the missiles were there merely for show, after all. On several occasions last week, Syria fired a succession of the SA-6s and managed to shoot down a pilotless Israeli reconnaissance drone...