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...first culprit on the list for failing to contribute "that something special" is the Harvard Band, whose between-period numbers were nice, but whose lull-in-the-action inputs were non-existent. It's against ECAC rules to play music while action in a game is going on, but how many small breaks were there when nothing was forthcoming from the musicians in the corner? Too many...
Troop Airlift. Some Western observers read the comparative lull in the fighting last week as a sign that the kind of debate going on in Moscow was also going on in Luanda. As one longtime British Angola watcher put it, Neto and his lieutenants may be realizing that "even if they win the next battle, it's going to be tough to win the war." The Luanda government, moreover, denied that it was solidly in the Soviet camp...
Scheduling provided the 'Cliffes with a lull through the Christmas vacation, season, but the women are defrosting and will return to action beginning tomorrow night when Carole Kleinfelder brings her hot-shot cagers to MIT. The 4-1 Radcliffe basketball team will be looking to continue their winning ways, but injuries may dull the start of the 1977-half of their season...
...violence in Beirut had tapered off to occasional skirmishing and sniping. It was heavy rains, however, rather than a spirit of conciliation that had dampened the fighting ardor of gunmen, who roamed the streets carrying an umbrella in one hand and a rifle in the other. The lull coincided with end-of-the-month anticipation of paychecks, a time when many street fighters have a personal interest in maintaining at least enough order for banks to reopen...
Clean-up efforts began, but schools and most banks did not reopen, and most civil servants ignored Premier Karami's order to return to work. One suspicion was that the lull was only a "paycheck truce" during which the soldiers of the private militias involved would collect back salaries from local political bosses or other employers, get food for their families and rebuild their own supply of arms and ammunition...