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...ahead of themselves. The Allies had neither the troops nor the landing craft needed to carry out Operation Sledgehammer or Roundup or the other code-named plans to invade France in 1942 or 1943. Yet to boost morale and reassure their voters, both Churchill and Roosevelt were determined to mount an offensive somewhere against the Germans before 1942 ended. They decided to invade North Africa to drive out the Italians and the German Afrika Korps, though Marshall and Eisenhower opposed the move as a diversion of resources...
...woman was in stable condition last night at Mount Auburn Hospital after receiving X-rays for injuries to her knee, Cambridge police detective Frank Pasquarello said last night. Three Cambridge police cars, an ambulance and a Cambridge Fire Department rescue vehicle responded to the accident...
...total of 44,000 personnel participated in operation "Agile Provider" on Great Inagua. This number seems large enough to deal singlehandedly with whatever opposition the splintered and disorganized Haitian military could mount. The number is also significantly greater than any proposed scale of U.S. involvement in Bosnia. It looks like another fabled "surgical strike" is in the works...
Disney says this is only Phase 1. Next it will invest $8 million in a government-subsidized renovation of a theater on 42nd Street, symbolically & sanitizing the porn district, to mount stage versions of other cartoons. Broadway can only welcome any attempt to instill theatergoing in the young -- and, of course, hope Disney makes the next show better...
...Crimson finished sixth with a 761 overall for ten rounds of golf, two each for five players. James Madison was first with a 663; Princeton was second (677); Rutgers was third (698); Boston College was fourth (699); and Hartford was fifth (712). Harvard edged out Yale (787) and Mount Holyoke...