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Dayan, who runs ahead of all other politicians in the polls, has thrown down the gauntlet to party leaders on this and other issues in the past few weeks. He has warned that he will not join a new government after the fall elections if it is run by a dove on a dovish platform...
...Crimson lacrosse team, coming off a sweep of last Saturday's round robin at Harvard, learned the Mid-Atlantic brand of lacrosse the hard way, running a gauntlet of Rutgers, Navy, Franklin & Marshall and Adelphi...
...Harvard Journal gave The Crimson the only tough fight in its history. One Journalist threw down the gauntlet in a defiant note to Crimson President J.H. Morison...
Olivier's personal diplomatic protection was an unusual but necessary gesture. In the wake of an abortive invasion by exiled Ugandan guerrillas two weeks ago, the country is a tinderbox of tension and fear. The journey to Entebbe Airport 20 miles outside the capital has become a nightmarish gauntlet for the departing Asians, who have been manhandled and robbed by soldiers manning five roadblocks along...
...over as surely as some of the wooden police barricades near the convention center. Of the 4,000 or so demonstrators who did show up, only the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War remained well disciplined throughout. The night of Nixon's nomination, instead of forming the announced "gauntlet of shame" for the delegates to pass through as they filed into the hall, protesters formed what must have seemed to many delegates gauntlets of terror, thumping the doors and trunks of the arriving cars and taxis, and spitting, swearing and screaming at the delegates themselves. The performance moved...