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...these weapons." The incident marked a turning point of sorts for the Sandinistas. "Now that (SA-7s) are introduced, the war has a new character," warned Ortega. Never before, he insisted, have Latin American guerrilla forces used such advanced weaponry. "When Shultz says it is right that the irregulars use these rockets, then that is giving the go-ahead to the use of rockets to any irregular force in any part of the world...
Actually, the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-secret social club that publishes parodies on a highly irregular schedule--won't be bringing up any charges against itself. But the elite and selective fraternal order may just take the Kennedy School Lampoon--a new group which has so far published only a send-up of the official K-School program of activities--to court for copyright infringement if the club's incipient humor magazine doesn't give back its name...
...time looked right last week to begin a devaluation campaign. At its peak in February, the dollar was selling at a far higher price than could be justified by any calculation of economic growth and inflation rates. A slow and irregular decline set in. Money traders, who were already debating how much further the dollar might fall and how fast, pounced on last Sunday's five-government announcement as a signal to start selling greenbacks immediately. In New York some traders came to work at 10 p.m. Sunday to be on hand for the opening of the Hong Kong...
Unfortunately, because the Indoor Athletic Building is being reconstructed, the squad has had to practice on a temporary court--which has irregular length, non-standard girth, a shoddy...
HRV14 is marvelously complex; its genetic material is surrounded by a 20- sided outer shell that vaguely resembles a soccer ball. The sides consist of three identical triangles each containing three proteins on its irregular surface, and one below it. On the surface proteins, the researchers discovered, features that resemble mountaintops are actually antigens, structures that antibodies seek out and attach themselves to when attacking the virus. A "canyon" snakes between these mountaintops and is believed by scientists to be shaped specifically to fit over projections, or receptors, on the surface of human cells. The virus may use this canyon...