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...some occasions, the U.S. hunters pounce on the Soviet sub in what the Navy euphemistically calls "informal exercises." The object of the chase is to give the Soviet submarines a healthy respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system...
...heart-stopping finale to the meet, which became a Harvard-North-eastern duel in the opening trials Friday as the five other Boston schools fell far behind...
...across its placid waters since last October, the Suez Canal last week seemed more than ever a permanent casualty of the Arab-Israeli war. Even the brief hopes that 15 trapped freighters might finally be freed after eight months of captivity flickered rapidly away in a three-hour gun duel between Egyptian and Israeli forces. By the time the truce was restored by the U.N.'s blue-helmeted observers, the Egyptians had not only suspended their efforts to release the rusting ships but declared that they would do nothing at all to reopen the canal until a complete Middle...
...surprise performances. The mile run was supposed to have been a duel between West Point's Hep champ, Bob McDonald, and the Crimson's sophomore Roy Shaw. But Baker, running brilliantly, left both of them in the dust...
...road of isolationism and internal effort," he said in a televised speech, "is too long, painful and perhaps sterile in today's world." Five of Gestido's eleven Cabinet ministers quickly resigned, and when insults began flying, Gestido even challenged his former Finance Minister to a duel-though it was later called...