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Just 15 minutes into the Harvard field hockey squad's very first game of the year, Northwestern had Crimson star Lili Pew working harder than ever...
...shellacking left many Harvard fans believing the stickwomen were headed for an extremely long season. Graduation had taken the squad's All-American and two more All-Ivy stars, injuries had taken one of its captains and Northwestern had taken some of its pride...
Thus has Amritsar, in the northwestern state of Punjab, become the center of a bitter feud between Sikhs and Hindus. Distinguished by their traditional beards and turbans, the Sikhs follow their own casteless, monotheistic religion, and over the past 15 months those in the Punjab have mounted a determined drive for greater autonomy from New Delhi. The more the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has resisted, the more savage the Sikh campaign has become. Last month six men hijacked a night bus at gunpoint, herded eleven Hindu men into a field and, with cold-blooded efficiency, shot...
Three years after Iraq launched its invasion of Iran, the war between those Persian Gulf neighbors continues to take an alarming toll of civilians. In the wake of a new Iranian offensive into Iraq's mountainous northwestern region, the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched Soviet-made FROG missiles at three Iranian cities in the southern province of Khuzistan. In addition, Iraq bombed several towns in northwestern Iran with Soviet-made fighters and bombers. Civilian casualties were estimated to be in the hundreds. Tehran also charged that Iraq had resorted to chemical warfare for the second time...
...initial indication of such terrestrial turmoil came in 1975, when Mount Baker, a 10,750-ft. volcanic peak in northwestern Washington, began to puff and fume. Vented steam has continued to melt ice around the summit crater of the mountain, which is only 90 miles from Seattle. The Geological Survey says that rising magma in the mountain's cone may be stoking Mount Baker's internal fires. Magma is hot, melted rock from deep within the earth that fuels volcanoes and becomes visible as lava when it breaks through the crust...