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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Center halfback Jeanne Piersiak continues to be a bright spot. The tenacious freshman from Needham played as though she owned every mud puddle on the field. Darting about with reckless abandon, Piersiak slid in the mud several times in successful attempts to regain possession of the ball...
...expected the Huskies to play such a tight game. The report that UMass, the only team to beat Harvard last season, had stunned the Huskies 6-1 brought on visions of a romp. But UConn coach Margaret Dunlop had regrouped her young team and when they stepped on the field Saturday they refused to be intimidated. While the Crimson was constantly within scoring range, the aggressive play of fullback Sue LaVigne thwarted the mighty Crimson offense time after time...
regulation play, the Crimson reappeared on the field fully ready to control play in the overtime periods. Completely adjusted to each others' styles of play, the squad once again looked like a unit as they outshot the UConn team 15-1 in those final twenty minutes...
...time in four months, mechanics were searching for tiny fatigue cracks in another McDonnell Douglas aircraft, this time the DC-9. Unlike the Federal Aviation Administration's hunt for engine-pylon-mount fractures that followed the crash of a DC-10 near Chicago's O'Hare field in May, the agency this time saw no need to ground the DC-9 fleet...
...Libya last week, he was deposed in a bloodless, midnight coup by former President David Dacko, himself overthrown by Bokassa in 1966. The downfall of the "Butcher of Bangui" gave Africa something to cheer about: the continent is now rid of its three most notorious dictators. In April, Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada was driven from Uganda by rebels and invading Tanzanian troops. Last month the equally despised President-for-Life of tiny Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias Nguema, was booted by a military coup...