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...airport 15 miles east of Noriega's headquarters. This group of 800 officers and men has 90% of the P.D.F.'s firepower -- including 120-mm mortars, rocket launchers and armored personnel carriers -- and many of its troops are Cuban-trained. Ultimately, it was units from Battalion 2000 that retook the headquarters and freed Noriega...
...opened an awards ceremony in the White House Rose Garden with the dramatic announcement, "America is back in space." Admitted < Reagan: "I think I had my fingers crossed like everybody else." In St. Charles, Mo., just after completing a campaign speech, George Bush got word about Discovery and hurriedly retook the stage. "I thought you might be interested," he told the crowd. "The shuttle is launched successfully, and America is back in space. We're back! America is back!" The crowd roared its approval. Declared Michael Dukakis, campaigning in New Jersey: "We're very proud of the astronauts...
...named Jaime Escalante, who in 1982 helped 18 of his students at East Los Angeles' gang-ridden Garfield High pass the Educational Testing Service's advanced placement test in calculus. After the ETS suggested that the students had cheated, Escalante protested. He was vindicated when all the students who retook the test passed with comparable or better scores...
...April, Iraq rolled into an offensive of its own, the first major attack since it invaded Iran in 1980. In a 36-hour blitz, the Seventh Army Corps, supported by President Saddam Hussein's elite Presidential Guard, retook the Fao peninsula, a finger of land at Iraq's southern tip that Iran had occupied after weeks of bloody fighting in February 1986. An estimated 20,000 Iranian troops were routed; 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. A day after the Fao disaster, Iranian naval forces clashed in the gulf with U.S. ships that had just demolished Iran's offshore...
...Harvard retook the lead with two outs in top of the eighth. Co-Captain Frank Caprio broke Grossguth's hitless spell with a single and scored on Co-Captain Frank Morelli's double to make the score 3-2. Dorrington retired the Friars in the bottom of the inning to earn the victory...