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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even with the dirty play, Harvard completely controlled the match. It was evident that Yale was not going to score but the Elis' defense made the Crimson go into overtime and cut down on the normal number of shots Harvard's strong front line usually batters at the opposition...
What could Washington do? Diplomacy did not seem to be getting very far, nor were appeals-via many channels -to the Iranian students to be reasonable. It was no wonder that an increasing number of Americans, in private conversations and in thousands of calls and telegrams to their elected representatives, began raising an old, familiar cry: send in the Marines. Or at least, they exclaimed, do something tough, such as dispatching warships to the Persian Gulf or dropping paratroopers into the embassy grounds...
...Cambodian tragedy has also stirred a number of individual relief efforts. Two Irish partners, Wicklow County Farmer Tim Philips, 41, and Dublin Sportswriter John O'Shea, 35, recruited a five-man flight crew and this month took a four-engine cargo plane loaded with 26 tons of food and medical supplies worth $200,000 from Dublin to Bangkok, and then into Phnom-Penh. The Irish dairy and sugar industries, a supermarket chain and a tobacco company donated the supplies, and the Irish government provided $80,000 for flight costs. That mercy mission, as Philips told his brother...
...smuggling of ivory and coffee long tolerated by Kenyatta. Says one villager from Jomo's home town of Gatundu: "Everyone likes the President because he has stopped the outlaws, the poachers and coffee smugglers. In Kenyatta's day, you could see a big man with a number of jobs. Nowadays it is one man, one job, and we are all equal...
When uneven football games get out of hand, sacking the quarterback becomes an exercise that any number can play. That's the way it has been for Jimmy Carter since early in this political season. If Brezhnev, Castro, Schmidt, Begin and Lopez Portillo could do it, who's to stop William Safire...