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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently by helicopter. The raiders attacked a military post near the border, commandeered several camouflaged Land Rovers and set out for Lusaka, 62 miles away. At about 3 a.m. they arrived in Woodlands, a section of Lusaka where Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, several foreign diplomats and Nkomo maintain their homes. The Rhodesians killed Nkomo's drowsy bodyguards with a burst of machine-gun fire, scaled the 8-ft. fence surrounding his one-story stucco house and blew it up with explosives. Although Zambia had beefed up its defensive capabilities with a new supply of British weapons after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Sneak Attack | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...meter relay squad, which has been a patched-up group all season because of Polillio's injury, had to adapt once more as Salvo sustained a groin pull in practice Friday. Ryan Lampaa. Al Harrington, Marc Chapus and John Jakenfelds managed to maintain an undefeated slate for the Crimson...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dartmouth Nips Thinclads With Field Event Power | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...massive switch of the library's catalogues to the more widely accepted Library of Congress system. But his decision was not rushed or unthinking. "Intellectually," he insists, "the old Widener system has certain advantages over the Library of Congress system." But he adds. "It had become a luxury to maintain a highly idiosyneratic system. One could no longer afford to keep it, even at Harvard...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Bryant Steps Down: The Man Behind the Stacks | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...leave the library system--soon to be under Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor. Harvard's tradition of excellence must not be sacrificed to multiplying costs, he insists. "In a library like Harvard's, whose expenditures are much larger than any University in the world, there is a necessity to maintain our commitments to collecting." From a man who first got interested in library work while dissecting German war papers at Stanford's Hoover Institution, this feeling comes as no great surprise. "The degree to which libraries can coordinate their efforts is the field in which there is greatest hope," Bryant...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Bryant Steps Down: The Man Behind the Stacks | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...Chris McConnell then grabbed first in the 200-meter event, but Crimson tracksters Marc Chapus and John Jakenfelds took second and third to maintain a six-point margin...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huskies Slip Past Crimson With Victory in Final Relay | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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