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Government sources also reported that remaining Sandinistas in Esteli, a city of about 30,000 on the Pan-American highway north of Managua, had been quashed. The city was retaken by national guard forces Tuesday after heavy bombardment...
Somoza's 7500-man National Guard controls the Pan-American highway leading into the city. They have attacked rebel positions from the air and appear ready to send in ground forces. Troops have been airlifted to the north of Esteli in an attempt to isolate the guerillas...
...Amateur Confederation of Roller Skating lists 12,000 speed skaters, 17,000 artistic skaters and 3,000 hockey skaters, with club membership up by a third in the past two years. National teams of all three kinds of skaters will compete in next year's prestigious Pan-American Games, and skaters are hoping to be included in the 1988 Olympics...
...June 1975 DiNicola found himself in the incongruous scenario of participating in a badminton tournament in the Camp LeJeune arena where the boxing team usually fought. Spinks happened to walk in just after having returned from boxing in the Pan-American games. That meeting between Spinks in his Everlast trunks and DiNicola in his badminton whites proved to be their last to date. Of course, DiNicola did send his old teammate a telegram right before the bout wishing him luck...
...Harvard chess team tied for second place along with six other teams in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship held in St. Louis, Missouri December 26 to December...