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Tony Baker picked up 162 yards on 21 carries and scored both Big Red touchdowns, but his efforts were for naught as Cornell fell to rallying Yale, 21-14, late in the fourth quarter at New Haven...
...recommendations in the Kissinger report remind me of the attempts by the Alliance for Progress to solve Latin America's problems. The Alliance failed despite the expenditure of nearly $10 billion. In all likelihood, the Kissinger suggestions will also come to naught. Unfortunately, the Kissinger panel does not demand basic structural changes in Central American institutions, changes that could prevent more military governments from coming to power and that could reduce the gap between a rich minority and an impoverished majority...
Even though Barnes claimed last year that he would seek Executive clemency and adopted a repentant tone ("My whole life was shallow"), such meekness will probably go for naught. Barnes volunteered to talk for no more than the assurance that his cooperation would be brought to the attention of the Government. U.S. prosecutors, who last week produced a 19-page memo detailing Barnes' cooperation, insist that the one man who has the power to grant clemency, the President, is hardly likely to give even as much as a chance for parole. Asks Assistant U.S. Attor-Tney Philip Douglas: "What...
When a pair of Crimson power plays, one of them right after the penalty shot, went for naught, B.C. skillfully killed time the rest of the way Blair couldn't leave the ice for a sixth skater until only 17 seconds remained, as the Eagles won their third straight in the local rivalry...
...precautions were all for naught. As Heineken was leaving his office early one evening last week, three masked men suddenly jumped on him and dragged him toward an orange Peugeot minivan. When Chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, leaped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to save his boss, he too was beaten and abducted. Coolly following a well-rehearsed plan, the criminals whizzed through downtown Amsterdam, switched to a Citroen getaway car and vanished into the night. Police later discovered bloodstains on the deserted van and two Uzi submachine guns near...