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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somoza has accomplished that. Last November, in a clash with National Guard troops, the Sandinistas' secretary-general, Carlos Fonseca Amador, 40, was killed en route to a meeting, laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
Women should defect en masse. Without women the church could propagate nothing...
Courtside and poolside were both emotionally charged. While the individual nature of swimming prompted personal responses to success and failure, the hoopsters reacted en masse. If a swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel...
With a hectic weekend of competition and socializing finally over, the teams returned to Cambridge. En route, basketball coach Carole Kleinfelder, swimming coach Stephanie Walsh and Nikki Janus, assistant director of athletics, probably reflected on how successful the weekend had been, but they undoubtedly also thought about what they would do next year, when Harvard hosts the tournament...
...this stage, Keven McDonald, the Ivy League's leading scorer with a 20.5 average coming into last night's game, left his greeting card under the Harvard basket. En route to a devastating 28 point output, McDonald sunk a 20-footer, a 12-footer off the glass. After he canned his fifth bucket of the half in five attempts from the field, the cagers took a time-out to talk things over with 5:02 remaining...