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Cuban Premier Fidel Castro insisted to the ranking American diplomat in Havana, Lyle Lane, that no Cubans had participated in the Shaba raid. In fact, said Castro, Cuban advisers had learned of the raid beforehand and tried to talk the Katangese out of going through with it. Washington officials could not prove Castro wrong and were not quite sure how to interpret his words. In any case, there was no doubt that over the years, the Cubans and the Angolans had armed and trained the Katangese and were therefore implicated in the mischiefmaking...
King is one of the third or fourth best debaters in the country. Lyle J. Pash '77, an assistent coach of the debaters, said yesterday, adding that "he is an exceptional researcher and knows his facts inside...
Aside from the Lyle contretemps, this season's assembling of the cast in Fort Lauderdale has proceeded, by recent Yankee standards, like a love-in. For an entire week one and all behaved as though Norman Vincent Peale were in the locker room. Jackson reported to camp early in his silver and blue Rolls-Royce Corniche and shook hands all around with egalitarian humility. Thurman Munson managed not to insult anyone through the simple expedient of keeping his mouth shut. "I'm not talking today," he said, day after day. Expensive Benchwarmer Ken Holtzman arrived sans his cavalryman...
...going to be without incident this year. I'm not a Utopian." Indeed, there are genuine seeds of discontent in his overstaffed pitching corps. The Yankees have assembled a roll call of stars; the problem will be finding room in the sky for all of them. Lyle's trade talk was prompted by the fact that he claims to need almost daily stints on the mound to maintain his effectiveness. The same is true of Gossage and Eastwick. Says Gossage: "There's enough work for Sparky and me, but I don't know if there...
...Reds' Manager Sparky Anderson: pull his starters after six innings or so in order to feed the talented bullpen. That tactic could save fragile arms, but it will prevent healthy pitchers from going the full nine innings that build stats-and egos. No less an expert than Lyle acknowledges: "Show me a starting pitcher who doesn't like to finish what he starts. They...