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...Libyan allies not long ago, Chad's provisional President Goukouni Oueddei boasted that since the Islamic legion had intervened, "peace and calm" had been restored to N'Djamena after nine months of bloody civil strife. Indeed, with the .exception of an occasional gunshot or the roar of a Libyan jet fighter wheeling overhead, within the capital an eerie quiet reigns. The bulk of the residents who fled N'Djamena when fighting broke out between Oueddei supporters and the rival forces of former Defense Minister Hissène Habré do not seem convinced that the danger...
High point diving honors went to Harvard's Jeff Mule. With Columbia's Paul Opperman, a summer training partner of Mule's, pulling close, the Crimson diver completed the competition with a backward one and a half somersault with a two and a half twist. This maneuver earned a roar from the crowd and averaged a score of 7.5 from the judges, putting the three meter title...
During the last few rounds of boxing, the participants in the shuttle bout worked up a sweat by dancing around the ring. Although the roar of the crowd has been great, neither drivers nor University officials have thrown a single punch...
Labor's new leftists advocate frightening doctrines "This government has got to be forced out of office!" cried a Young Socialist and self-professed "Trotskyite" at an anti-Thatcher rally earlier this winter. As the thunderous roar of approval died down, the frail, white-maned figure of Labor Party Leader Michael Foot stepped to the microphone. "Throw the government out!" yelled Foot. Then he cautioned: "But prepare to destroy at the ballot...
Electric shovels that weigh as much as 3 million lbs. eat into the hillsides while dump trucks carrying 160 tons of coal roar out of the pits 24 hours a day. During the first year of operation in 1977, Arco took 40,000 tons out of its Black Thunder mine. It has now extracted 1 1 million tons, and will take out 20 million tons...