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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plenty of football is left to be played and, if last Saturday's action is any indication of how the rest of the season will shape up, then it should be a race that will go down to the wire...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: It's the Second Time Around | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

Sure looks like the makings of one good old-fashioned race. Here are some of the key matchups that will decide who will capture the Ivy crown...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: It's the Second Time Around | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

October 31-HARVARD at Brown: Simply, it's the two first-place teams battling each other to take the other team out of the race. At least for now, this game is probably the most anticipated contest of the Ivy season. The Crimson is the last true opponent Brown will face all year because the Bruins close out their Ivy slate against Dartmouth and Columbia...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: It's the Second Time Around | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's fanatical followers have instead chosen to use the Silkworms for assaults on vulnerable Kuwait, which has supplied billions of dollars to Iraq during the seven-year war. Dozens of ships bound to and from Kuwait have come under fire from armed Iranian speedboats that race around the gulf. Until now, however, the Iranians have taken care not to directly attack the eleven tankers -- half the Kuwaiti-owned fleet -- now under the protection of U.S. warships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Silkworm's Sting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Volel became the second murder victim in Haiti's presidential race, the first to be held since three decades of Duvalier rule ended last year. In August, Louis Eugene Athis was hacked to death by peasants who had been wrongfully informed by local police that the candidate was a Communist. Though neither victim was a front runner in a field of more than 30 candidates, some observers suspected that the murders were an attempt by old-guard Duvalierists to hold on to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Murder on the Campaign Trail | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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