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...that happy though ever distant day when David moves into his new house, one item will surely go with him. It is the mounted head of the nine-point buck he and his father shot last fall. David remembers: "We came to skin the deer, and Dad looks at it and says, 'I'm going to have that mounted.' Then he was tearin' the skin off, and we found where I had shot it real close to the tail where it went through the backbone and came out the other side. And Dad says, 'If you goin' to shoot...
...group of rebels presented a nine-point petition calling for his resignation to the five-member directorate of the contras. Bermudez's ties with Somoza's dreaded National Guard have long been a source of friction within the contras, and some observers speculated that Adolfo Calero, a member of the directorate, may have encouraged the guerrilla revolt...
Oklahoma entered last night's game as a nine-point favorite. The Sooners left wondering why they always get stuck in this fairy tale. In January, the Oklahoma football team--ranked number one in the nation--fell to Miami in the Orange Bowl and lost the national championship...
With the score 43-36, Harvard put together its first nine-point run. Brandeis retaliated with its own sevenpoint run, which was then followed up by Harvard's second nine-point...
When these talks were pursued, Shultz insisted on written negotiating instructions that ruled out any arms sales. Yet the State Department's representative at the talks in Frankfurt learned that the Iranians were working from a nine-point plan given to them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...