Word: onslaughts
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Credit for stemming the Lions onslaught for most of the match goes to junior Phil Coogan, who twice look out charging Columbia forwards at the edge of the penalty box and found himself diving across the goal mouth on one-handed saves too many times to count...
...face of this onslaught, the minority students backed off, saying that they had never intended Greenberg's race to be an issue. Saying this argument was tangential, the students contended that they really objected only to the insensitivity they perceived on the part of the Law School administration, in their handling of the race course, and of minority hiring in general. "The fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions," BLSA executive committee member Donald Christopher Tyler wrote in a recent letter to The Crimson. A press release issued...
...over with, and let you and the U.S. bear the consequences." Wazzan's performance was both heartfelt and effective. So was the telephone call that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made that day to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, asking for his assistance in stopping the onslaught. Enraged by what Arafat told him about the ongoing bombing, Fahd promised to call Reagan and demand that the carnage cease. And so he did, reaching the White House scarcely ten minutes before Reagan got through to Begin...
...have had a bad press, but it's not a worse press than they had a right to expect." Israel's real problem was neither the bias of correspondents nor poor propaganda packaging, but something far more serious: the lack of a readily convincing justification for the onslaught on West Beirut...
...that it was not "the real thing"-the long-threatened Israeli invasion of the battered enclave of the capital by the sea. But to the 500,000 residents of West Beirut, as well as to the 6,000 Palestinian fighters hidden among them, it was as close to total onslaught as anyone could imagine. Twice last week the Israelis staged attacks on the besieged western areas of Beirut that in sheer destructive power, though not in casualties, wreaked devastation that stirred memories of the punishment inflicted on European cities during World War II and recalled the fate of Jericho...