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Then, on first and 10, Yohe hit wide-open wide-out Neil Phillips down the middle on the eight yard-line. After Crimson fullback Dave Bunning was stopped for a loss and Yohe overthrew Lucas in the endzone--setting up a third and goal situation--Yohe rolled out looking to pass, but with all of his receivers tightly covered, the junior phenom took it into the endzone himself...
Sankara, an army captain, overthrew Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo on Aug. 4, 1983, with the help of Capt. Blaise Compaore, who led the coup yesterday...
Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka is the most indecisive of strongmen. In May he overthrew Fiji's Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, but quickly turned authority over to a civilian-dominated council. Two weeks ago the colonel seized power ! once more. But early last week he had second thoughts yet again. The colonel released Bavadra from prison and began talks aimed at restoring civilian government. Rabuka was responding in part to an appeal from Queen Elizabeth II that the former British colony not quit the Commonwealth...
Northeastern, meanwhile, was using itssimilar-size advantage on offense to rack up over200 yards rushing. Quarterback O'Leary passed for156 additional yards (giving the visitors a totalyardage edge), but overthrew wide-open receivers anumber of times...
After Castro overthrew the Batista regime, Del Pino learned to fly. Piloting a tiny T-33 trainer during the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Del Pino shot down two U.S. B-26 bombers. The exploit, recounted in his 1969 book Dawn at the Bay of Pigs, made him a legend. He rose rapidly through the ranks and, in 1975, became a first commander. He was trained in the Soviet Union at the Yuri Gagarin Aviation College. As of last week, however, Del Pino was anything but admired by Cuba's Communist rulers. Characterizing his defection as "strange...