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...NOTEBOOK:Brown's final Harvard contest put her in a tie for the all-time career record of most games played...With the 10 points scored Saturday night, Brown finished with 676 career points, which is ninth on the all-time scoring list...Hayes led the team in scoring with 18 points, while Baldauf chipped in 12...Dartmouth finished the season with an Ivy record of 12-2 and a 16-9 overall mark...Harvard's final record of 13-13 marks the first time the Crimson has reached .500 since the beginning of the Ivy season...
McFarlane's successor as National Security Adviser "failed grievously" to consider the gravity of the diversion of money to the contras. Poindexter did not show an awareness of the operation's scope or importance, focusing instead on narrow details like who should be on the list of people who would have access to information. On occasion he misled top Administration officials about details of the arms sales and the contra diversion. Poindexter "apparently failed to appreciate or ignored the serious legal and political risks presented" by the contra-support operation, said the commission. It added that, on the evidence available...
While Baker's selection was widely popular, his name had not even been on the President's short list of possible successors to Regan. It did not come up until Thursday afternoon, when the President met with his close friend Paul Laxalt, former Senator from Nevada. Laxalt himself had been considered, but he is still mulling a run for the presidency in 1988, and told Reagan he was not available; instead he recommended Baker. Two other key advisers, Attorney General Edwin Meese and Pollster Richard Wirthlin, agreed with the suggestion. Reagan phoned Baker that afternoon. Less than 24 hours later...
...suspects, two men and two women, were arrested last week at an isolated farmhouse in the Loire valley, 85 miles south of Paris, after reward-seeking informants tipped off police. Authorities also seized at the farmhouse an automatic rifle, six handguns, 60 lbs. of explosives and a list of a dozen names of presumed terrorist targets. Police say the four are members of Action Directe, a radical-leftist group formed...
...last hope of the Lebanese hostages now fills the spaces that once broadcast his message of hope with spreads on seasonal fashion trends and recipes for triple-tiered Jellocakes. People magazine, which hailed him as one of "1986's 10 most interesting people," has dropped him from their party list. Terry Waite, seized several weeks ago by Muslim fundamentalist, is a media nonentity...