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...attacks came by air, land and sea. Relentlessly, day after day, Israeli forces rained destruction on Lebanon in their determined drive to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization and oust Syrian forces from the country. Waves of Israeli F-16s and F-4 Phantom jets screamed in over Palestinian-and Muslim-controlled West Beirut, dropping bombs. Israeli warships bombarded the city's coastline all the way from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers...
...their knock for arguing like any other student group. When the College refused them permission to include GSA pamphlets in students registration packets, they argued not as representatives of a minority sexual persuasion but as a legitimate student group--which they were. They argued so successfully that to oust them from the packet, the Faculty was forced to remove all other student activity leaflets, along with the GSA's to a hurriedly created "second packet." When the group tried to put a statement on the books affirming the College's opposition to anti-gay discrimination, its strategy of stressing parallels...
...further discussion of sovereignty. General Galtieri, with inflation rising at 147%, the peso at 11,300 to the dollar (official rate) and serious internal discontent, had so far whipped up national sentiment as to have pasted himself into a corner. There were others at hand, quite prepared to oust him if his venture failed. Among the admirals were men of much more fascist temper than he. The air force generals, long in second place to the admirals, were gaining in clout. Galtieri had to succeed. How could he withdraw-and survive...
...first press reports made it seem plausible: another Bay of Pigs was in the offing. Amid the forests of the Florida Everglades, where Cuban exiles had plotted to oust Fidel Castro, a new counterrevolutionary army had been born. This time the rebels were Nicaraguan expatriates mobilizing to overthrow their country's quasi-Marxist regime...
...Harvard-Northeastern track rivalry continued last year with a two-point, 69-67 Crimson loss, and Saturday afternoon the two squads go at it again. But this time around, Harvard coach Bill McCurdy's unbeaten charges will have to turn in a stellar performance to oust the favored Huskies and turn in their fourth straight...