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Coach Harry Parker's heavyweight crew squad endured a novel training program this past Saturday: The Newell (Boathouse) Triathalon. Consisting of 1) a half-hour row on a rowing machine; 2) a four-mile run; and 3) a run up and down each of the stadium's 37 rows, the triathalon claimed many oarsmen's Saturday night revelries...
...guerrillas have strengthened their grip mainly in the eastern provinces. They control a strategic 62-mile stretch of Pacific beach and can roam freely through most of the countryside. To the north, the insurgents have streamed down from Chalatenango and the mountain redoubt of Guazapa to infiltrate the province of Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti...
...Amsterdam industrial park. While pursuing that lead the authorities agreed to turn over the ransom. They stuffed an estimated $10 million into postal bags and placed the cash inside a van. Then a lone driver, communicating with the kidnapers over a walkie-talkie, followed their directions through a 120-mile journey that zigzagged across the country. Finally, the eagle told the hare to drop the money bags from an overpass down to a waiting...
...deployment of additional SS-20s in Europe, 2) accelerated preparations to introduce "operational tactical missiles of increased range," presumably meaning SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 weapons, into East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 3) the probable deployment near U.S. shores of Soviet submarines carrying new long-range (1,500-mile) cruise missiles or rapid, depressed-trajectory ballistic missiles. At a meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels, Nitze called the Andropov statement a "hardening of the Soviet position...
Police now believe that an armed gang had driven up to the isolated church in rural Armagh County, just one mile from the border with the Irish Republic, and opened fire with pistols and automatic rifles. The killers escaped, presumably into the Irish Republic. Cartridges found on the scene link the killings to Dominic ("Mad Dog") McGlinchey, 29, a former member of the Irish Republican Army and still Ireland's most wanted terrorist. As police north and south of the Irish border went on major alert, Roman Catholics braced for a retaliatory attack by Protestant terrorists...