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Although Biggs' score was the last the team would have in the match, the Crimson created several excellent scoring chances that went for naught. At the end of the first half, Pinezich blasted an indirect kick into the crossbar. Towards the end of the second half, a strong shot by freshman Susan Carls was turned away by the sprawling Princeton netminder...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Women Booters Tip Tigers | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Still, a clamor is building for a negotiated cease-fire in Nicaragua. Bolstered by the peace prize, Arias renewed his calls last week for indirect talks between the Sandinistas and the contra leaders to be mediated by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Primate. "There's a new mood in Central America now," Arias told TIME. "I hope President Ortega will revise his position and accept dialogue." Two other signatories to the peace plan, El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Honduras' President Jose Azcona Hoyo, echoed Arias' appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Golden Opportunity for Don Oscar | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...this month, Iranian speedboats and frigates have attacked six unarmed ships in the gulf, including two Japanese tankers. That stirred Japan into offering modest help to finance the U.S. defensive operations in the international waterway, including some $10 million worth of advanced navigational gear. West Germany too offered indirect support, sending three warships into the Mediterranean to free other NATO vessels for gulf patrols. Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands already have warships and minesweepers on duty in the gulf -- as does the Soviet Union, which has a dozen ships there and in the Arabian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and Iran: We Engaged | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...skin cancer common to AIDS victims, in June 1980, before the epidemic had been perceived by physicians. Told later he was endangering anyone he slept with, Dugas unrepentantly carried on -- by his estimate, with 250 partners a year -- until his death in March 1984, adding countless direct and indirect victims. At least one man indignantly hunted him down. Dugas' charm proved unfailing: he sweet-talked the man into having sex again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Appalling Saga of Patient Zero | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...violate the Boland amendment proscription against "direct or indirect" military support for the contras; some private fund raising skirted U.S. tax laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Knew What | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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