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Track Coach Robert "Pappy" Hunt says he's the slowest member of the men's varsity squad. And in spite of practicing nearly 20 hours weekly, he has yet to complete a mile in under seven minutes...
...Charter. The 1978 Litani operation failed to prevent subsequent PLO terrorism, so the government was entitled to use whatever means necessary to eradicate the northern threat once and for all. The massive PLO infrastructure necessarily required that the Israelis proceed further than their originally stated 25 mile limit...
...Pope will set off on a visit to all seven countries of Central America as well as to the Caribbean nation of Haiti in an eight-day 18,000-mile journey. In many respects, the region resembles its characteristic topographic feature: Central America is a seething volcano of violence, revolution and poverty. The church there is weighted with bishops who at times have supported oppressive ruling establishments, a rank-and-file clergy that often backs revolutionary change and the threat of competition from growing Protestant evangelism...
...cross that will remain permanently at the site of a papal rally in the Campo de Marte stadium. Hundreds of people plan to stay up the night before his arrival laying a multicolored carpet of sawdust and pine needles, a tradition during Holy Week, that will cover the six-mile path of the Pope's motorcade. Street vendors in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa are hawking posters, bumper stickers, buttons and records of a jingle that has become the theme song for the visit...
...Sullivan. (Past winners have included Golfer Bobby Jones, Track Star Wilma Rudolph and Decathloners Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson and Bill Toomey.) A mere wisp of a lass, Tabb. stands 5ft. 6 in. and weighs only 103 Ibs. But how the lady can run! Last year, at distances from a mile to 10,000 meters, she broke seven world and ten American records-nine of them in one 41-day stretch. Earlier this month she took herself out of competition for the remainder of the indoor track season to nurse a stress fracture of her left ankle, but she still looks...