Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because while the Crimson fought to a draw with the visiting Bruins, the Elis did their Cambridge buddies a favor by sweeping league-leading and previously unbeaten Dartmouth...
...Martin aided a three-point Quaker comeback. But superb team defense paved the way to a 15-7 Crimson victory. Ross blocked three shots and Nadkarni fixed two service winners to set the final score. In the second and deciding game Twite led a 12-2 surge as Harvard fought back from a 7-3 deficit to win the game...
...military trainers and restive officers of the Salvadoran armed forces. An astute politician, Garcia had been helpful to the U.S. in supporting El Salvador's land-reform program and curbing the excesses of right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. But on the antiguerrilla battlefront, Garcia fought what for its cushy hours became known as a 9-to-5 war. He ignored U.S. advice to use aggressive small-unit patrolling tactics against the rebels, and instead sent major units of the 24,000-member Salvadoran army on wasteful sweeps through the countryside...
...whose members are charged with murdering four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980. The new Defense Minister is expected to turn control of the war effort over to qualified regional military commanders. Says a U.S. military official in San Salvador: "Vides Casanova understands that this war is being fought in the minds of the people and not over a particular piece of ground." A renewed Salvadoran government offensive against the guerrillas is expected within the next eight weeks...
...council and its committees have kept open all of their more than 100 meetings this year, and delegates to student-faculty groups have fought vigorously to let the press and public attend meetings which some administrators sought to close. But the academics committee voted unanimously to operate in closed session, citing "varied reasons" which included protecting the identity of the student nominators and protecting the feelings of the professors and teaching fellows who would...