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HONDURAS. The poverty-stricken Miskito Indians who eke out an existence in the northeastern Honduras department of Gracias a Dios had never seen anything like it. As U.S. Air Force C-141 transports and giant C5-A Galaxies roared overhead, Honduran special-forces parachutes bloomed in the skies above that remote and inhospitable corner of the country, twelve miles from the Nicaraguan border. In the nearby Caribbean coastal town of Puerto Lempira, two 8,800-ton U.S. Navy landing craft nosed ashore to deposit 580 members of the Honduran fourth infantry battalion. A mile away, U.S. Army officers huddled...
...when faced with a neck and-neck race with teammate Grace de-Fries in the final stretch of the event. Straining with every available ounce of remaining strength, Stricker moved barely ahead of de-Fries-who had worked her way up to Stricker's shoulder-to eke out a victory by one-tenth of a second...
...singles action, Harvard managed to eke out a 4-2 advantage over a resilient Lion squad. But what has become a disturbing trend this year continued, as junior All-American Howard Sands lost for the fifth time this year. Harvard's first seed fell, 7-6, 6-1 to senior Andy Caulfield, a Sydney, Australia native...
...this weekend, the Tigers had to claw and scratch to eke out a 79-70 victory over the Crimson aquawomen in a meet decided by the last race...
...undefeated Crimson squad it was their most satisfying and notable victory of the season, for despite a paucity of first places, the team managed to eke out enough outstanding finishes to silence the large and scholarship-laden BU squad and return the Greater Boston laurels to its original home...