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...women harriers will undergo a similar transfer. With last cross country race behind them (last week's bid for the national title in Seattle), the fleet footed field runners take up their new residence in the indoor track building...
...Restic will probably substitute freely. Fullback Jim Callinan, recovered from the bruise on his leg, will start along with Paul Connors and Tom Beatrice, but Jim Acheson, Scott McCabe and Jim Garvey should also see action in the backfield. Flanker Ron Cuccia will not play again this week. The fleet Californian suffered a pulled hamstring at Dartmouth, and because the injury is so high in his leg, it can't be taped. He is possible at Penn, where halfback Paul Scheper should also return. To the predictions...
...most of the 5,000 people in Manila's plush International Convention Center, the explosion at first seemed to be a sound effect: they had been watching a noisy slide show depicting U.S. Admiral George Dewey's 1898 defeat of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. But the blast was a real one: 18 stunned and bleeding delegates to a convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) emerged from the hall after a bomb exploded only 50 ft. from their host, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines...
...sixth game. The left-handed Carlton-odds-on choice for his third Cy Young Award as the National League's top pitcher with a 24-9 regular season record-beat the Royals in the second game, striking out seven batters. Equally important, he kept the Royals' fleet base runners back on their heels with one of the best pick-off throws in the game. Fretted Royals' Manager Jim Frey...
...their side of the board in the chess game they are playing with the U.S. in the area. The U.S. earlier this year negotiated agreements for access to military facilities in Kenya, Somalia and Oman; it also has close ties with Egypt and is building up its Indian Ocean fleet. That network is intended to counter the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Now U.S. military planners may have to reckon with Moscow's closer Syrian connection as well...