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...Today's loss was due to overconfidence," Pike said yesterday after the Crimson dropped a 9-7 decision to the seventh-needed University of Richmond. The match was close throughout, but Spider Jim Lewis's three final-period scores pushed his team over the edge...
Organizers of "Mondale for President" plan to continue fundraising already begun in Boston, and to start publicity drives this week, third year law student Richmond Jerome, a founder of the group, said yesterday...
...Tuesday afternoon, the Guam moved to the west coast of the island. The enemy troops had grouped in a significant force north of St. George's. They held Fort Frederick and were assumed to be holding hostages at Richmond Hill prison, on high ground east of the capital. From the Guam, 250 Marines boarded 13 amphibious vehicles, carrying five tanks, and stormed ashore at Grand Mai Bay north of the city. They began moving south, while the paratroopers headed north toward the capital in a pincer movement...
...roughly the same time on Wednesday, U.S. forces rushed into a now deserted Fort Frederick and found only abandoned inmates at Richmond Hill prison. The invading forces carefully avoided endangering the Soviet embassy in St. George's, where 49 diplomats, scornfully described by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as "embassy people, spies, KGB people and others," were in seclusion. Ten East Germans, three Bulgarians and 24 North Koreans were also at the Soviet embassy...
...naval hospital at Agnano, near Naples, Lance Corporal Wayne Harris, 22, of Richmond, recounted how he was trapped for four hours. "First I was screaming a lot, but then I got worried about losing my air. Finally I just passed out and came to in the back of a truck." Ways of escape could be serendipitous as well as terrifying. Lance Corporal Adam Webb, 20, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, one of four guards on the roof, glimpsed the speeding truck as it disappeared below him. Webb felt the roof crack, then rode it down the four stories to the ground. Sliding...