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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flight 1 final, hard-hitting North Carolina freshman Cinda Gurney prevailed over Trinity junior Alison Fleming, 6-0, 3-6, 6-1, overcoming not only her opponent, but a shaky serving day as well. Gurney upset the number-one seed, Trinity's Katrina Crawford, 6-3, 6-3, in the quarterfinals, and Fleming topped second-seeded Diana Gardner from Princeton, 7-5,6-3, in the semifinals...
Freshman Ericka Elmuts and sophomore Jennifer Minkus lost in the second round to the number-two seed, Mary Lynn Cladis and Fleming from Trinity...
...survey by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force of 2000 respondents found that 40 percent of gay and lesbian people had been threatened with violence and 90 percent had experienced some kind of victimization because of their sexual orientation. The task force's 1987 report found that the number of cases of violence and intimidation against gay people rose 300 percent since...
...Colgate had swept Central Connecticut as expected, the Red Raiders would have advanced to the semifinals. Colgate did win the match, but not in straight sets. Since both Harvard and Colgate finished with a 2-1 tournament records, the last semifinal berth was determined according number of sets won and lost...
Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...