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Saigon's citizens got an eerily quiet three-day Tet holiday last week, rather than the long-awaited Communist attacks. At week's end, a North Vietnamese force overran a government outpost in the Mekong Delta, killing 27 defenders. Still, the only big Tet offensive last week was an American one: hundreds of air strikes were flown against Communist targets, including long-range artillery emplacements just above the Demilitarized Zone. South Vietnamese intelligence officers believe that an early February Communist flare-up had been planned but was put aside so that Communist negotiators in Paris could make...
...agree with the PALC that Harvard plays a role in the oppression of Black Angolans by the fact of its ownership of 680,000 shares of Gulf stock. Gulf is the sole concessionaire of an oil-rich region of Angola. When liberation forces overran the oil fields in 1961, Gulf was forced to stop its drilling. Big corporations take no chances. Gulf has helped finance the Portuguese army's suppression of the Angolese people because its management desires to keep this profit-making area in the hands of "reliable" white Europeans...
...contest will be a big test for the Crimson. After two consecutive defeats at the hands of Northeastern, the thinclads came back last Saturday and overran Princeton and Yale, 92 1/2-30-25 1/2, Last year. Penn downed Harvard in the Heps 46 1/2-28. Navy ran third with 24 points...
...attempted loft shot, Lord overran the ball and fell, knocking it back to Foster. Foster, now inside the circle, lifted the ball over Lord and the goalie's outstretched pad for the tying goal...
...quarter on a play that typified Princeton's efforts that afternoon. Harvard defenseman Chris Doyle threw a long clearing pass downfield, and Princeton goalie Alex Stuart, a converted midfielder, came out of the crease to try to intercept it. He ran right by Harvard's John Hagerty and then overran the pass, which Hagerty caught...