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...morning. From airfields deep in Iraq, Saddam sent his warplanes to strike Iranian military bases, including Mehrabad airport only four miles west of Tehran; Mehrabad serves as a military field as well as Iran's principal commercial airport. The Iraqi objective was straight from the military textbooks: to knock out the Iranian air force before it could ever get off the ground. The effort failed. Scarcely two hours after the attack, U.S.-made Iranian Phantoms were streaking toward two Iraqi bases in the Basra area. Then, beginning at dawn on Tuesday, the Iranian air force launched strikes against...
...parallels between Ali's fight with Foreman and his challenge to Holmes go far beyond his excellent condition, however. Foreman, like Holmes, was undefeated when Ali maneuvered him to a humiliating eighth round knock out. At 32 Ali was considered too old to defeat the man who had destroyed the same Joe Frazier who had given Ali two tough battles. Nearing 39, Ali is again marked as a strong underdog to the much younger Holmes, who twice easily defeated Earnie Shavers after Shavers had given Ali a real scare in September...
...only hope for Holmes, then, is an early knock out. That's just what he and many experts predict. But Ali has been hit by far harder punchers than Holmes--Frazier, Liston, Foreman, Shavers--and while he's been down, he's never been in danger of being knocked out. I don't think he can be knocked out--not even at 38. Ali's greatest strength is his ability to take a punch; Holmes's blows will pose no problem...
Nine minutes later, St. Louis crossed a ball in front of the net from the right to Gregg, who could only deflect it off to the side. But Ferrante was there to knock it in, putting the Crimson...
...been creeping up in recent weeks, are likely to continue rising, as the Federal Reserve attempts to remain within its 4% to 6½% annual growth target for money. Thus just as the economy appears to be getting up off the canvas, these higher interest rates are likely to knock it down again. Said Republican Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist for Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank: "The interest-rate decline, which was getting under way and making significant progress, has been aborted." Greenspan predicted that the economy could not return to solid growth until mortgage rates declined...