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...Crimson breezed to a 23-2 victory over the Dart Mouth Saturday, but the win may have been a pyrrhic victory that will shake the foundations of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily...
...power that just one man who is dedicated to being himself, to staying emotionally healthy and rational, and to facing up to anyone who addresses him can have in Max Row, Soledad, in Watts, or in Angola. Such a demonstration by Jackson would make his continued confinement a Pyrrhic victory for Reagan and his appointees, for though they would still have George Jackson behind bars, they could not help but release numerous members of his growing vanguard...
...violent explosion among these young, although no one will even take a guess at how profoundly embedded their rage is or how it might show in a sudden crisis. Conventional wisdom today has it that Watts and Newark and Detroit are not likely to happen again because they were pyrrhic, whatever their short-term value in bringing home to white America the depths of black despair. True, the riots were never part of a black revolutionary strategy as such; they grew out of combustible situations in which frustration finally vented itself, almost incoherently. Because that frustration is still a major...
Outlook for Hussein. For the King, his clouded victory in the civil war could well prove a Pyrrhic one. The fedayeen are too strongly entrenched throughout the Arab world for Hussein to eliminate them. Never a favorite among his fellow Arab rulers, the King has now lost almost all support. Palestinians living under Israeli occupation on the Jordan's west bank last week talked proudly of "our revolution." Algeria and Libya, at one point during the civil war, made moves to join on the side of the fedayeen. Libya also cut off its annual $25.2 million subsidy to Jordan...
...Pyrrhic Victory...