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...overall 4-8 in Ivy action. But the cagers have reasons to be cheerful. They showed that they can compete on a level with the best that the Ivy League has to otter and they displayed the courage to bounce back from a though set back and nearly knock off the top team in the league...
...after dark in the County Kildare countryside 30 miles southwest of Dublin, and Jim Fitzgerald's family had just finished dinner when there was a knock at the door. In burst five or more men, all masked and waving guns. Fitzgerald's wife and five of his children were herded together and locked in a back room. Fitzgerald, 55, head groom at nearby Ballymany Thoroughbred stud farm, was ordered to lead the gunmen to the stable of a certain five-year-old bay stallion...
During the Andropov era, the overwhelming majority of Soviets have lost their fear of the midnight knock on the door and the random arrest, but the KGB still moves with brutal swiftness to suppress dangerous displays of "nonconformity." One innovation was the creation of a KGB directorate to control political, nationalist and religious dissent. The directorate has achieved results without great social disruption, something that Andropov's conservative comrades on the Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been...
...acter, Eddie's love for his niece possessed shock effect. Incest isn't what it used to be. Furthermore, one doubts whether the current flood of illegal ah'ens cowers before an immigration official as if he had sounded a storm trooper's knock in the night...
...schedules had been different Harvard's Scott Fusco might have been the one to knock in the winning tally. The sophomore center said that if tomorrow's showdown with ECAC-leading Providence had been rescheduled for later in the season, he would have taken the ice against B.C. Fusco decided against playing the Eagles about two hours before the game...