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Rumors that President A. Bartlett Giamatti has been systematically decreasing support for the football program and varsity sports generally and reports of a feud between Athletic Director Frank Ryan and Cozza made the season all the more difficult for the Elis (see story page 12). But most of the team concurs with the attitude of star tailback Paul Andrie, a senior: "I don't like to pay attention to that stuff--not until I'm an alum, at least...
Even with that large proviso in his plans, Botha's referendum has created deep fissures among white South Africans. During the bitter three-month campaign, those divisions erupted in a bitter broedertwis (Afrikaans for fraternal feud), while the referendum became known as the Great Divide...
Thus has Amritsar, in the northwestern state of Punjab, become the center of a bitter feud between Sikhs and Hindus. Distinguished by their traditional beards and turbans, the Sikhs follow their own casteless, monotheistic religion, and over the past 15 months those in the Punjab have mounted a determined drive for greater autonomy from New Delhi. The more the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has resisted, the more savage the Sikh campaign has become. Last month six men hijacked a night bus at gunpoint, herded eleven Hindu men into a field and, with cold-blooded efficiency, shot...
...Lebanon's endless litany of sectarian violence, no feud has proved more bitter than that between Christians and Druze. The primary battlefield in their long-running confrontation is the Chouf, where both groups sought refuge from Sunni Muslim persecutors 1,000 years ago. Before Lebanon deteriorated into outright civil war in 1975, Aytat and Suq al Gharb lived in peace as summer resorts. Wealthy Arabs were drawn to the towns' cool mountain air scented by thick stands of parasol pines. Since the fighting resumed in earnest last October, the villages have become ghost towns. Gardens are overgrown, grape...
...Commencement ceremonies, the crew team snagged the national title, while several recent and current Crimson grads turned pro or trained for the Olympics. But the major news of the hottest months came not from the athletes but from the athletic bureaucracy: the first signs of a long-simmering feud emerged which could dissolve the Eastern College Athletic Conference hockey league--which Harvard plays in--after this season...