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As usual, Harvard put in a strong third period, pulling off controlled, nicely set-up plays. The Crimson scored its final goal on a three-player maneuver: defenseman Julie Starr to Jones to freshman Alex Lightfoot, who added one more tally to her teamleading record on a 45-ft. slapshot...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Dartmouth Rallies To Top Icewomen | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

It had none of the lightning-flash finesse of Entebbe, none of the bloody ferocity of Mayaguez. Yet once again, however fleetingly, the frustration of dealing with the irrational acts of militants had been lifted by a single daring and dramatic deed. The cunning maneuver executed by Canadian diplomats in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Canada to the Rescue | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Every athlete feels the exact instant of no return: the body is then irrevocably committed; it moves with a concentration so fierce as to be almost abstract. Governments rarely achieve such purity of action. Nonetheless, by last week the U.S. had lumberingly launched the great weight of its foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Boycott That Might Rescue the Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Another uncertainty about Carter's policy is his unwillingness to define the extent of the Persian Gulf area or what U.S. "vital interests" really are. A senior Administration official tried to make a virtue out of this imprecision, maintaining that it gives Carter room to maneuver. Moreover, if Carter went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Takes Charge | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

AFGHANISTAN. To many U.S. journalists, it seemed less surprising to be expelled from Soviet-occupied Afghanistan than to have been admitted at all. Eight days after Babrak Karmal was installed as the country's new President, the borders were reopened, and some 300 foreign journalists, half of them Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: That's No Way to Say Goodbye | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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