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...next two goals came within ten minutes of each other the first on a header off a pass by fellow sophomore Alicia Carrillo, and the second an unassisted rocket that Sharp simply could not handle...
Seven minutes into the second half, Lili Pew stroked a Harvard penalty corner to Beth Mullen at the top of the penalty circle Mullen took the stick stop and launched a rocket toward the Quaker not. The ball boomed against the backboard, and the Crimson had the day's only score...
Some of the Palestinians began to fight back with small arms and a few rocket-propelled grenades. Their resistance may have had some effect: Friday morning, the militiamen had begun to fall back from their northernmost penetration of the camps. At 9 a.m., the two Oukli brothers were able to return to some parts of Shatila from the Gaza Hospital area without encountering any of the killers. When the Ouklis reached their home, they found a pile of 15 dead, mostly their relatives, outside the door...
...weeks ago, in one of their more spectacular raids, guerrillas surrounded an Islamic Guard training base at Sardasht, in Kurdistan, and attacked it with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. More than 30 guards died in the assault. Yet another incident underlines the seriousness of what amounts to an undeclared civil war in Iran: early this month, Mehdi Mohammadi Gilani, son of Khomeini's chief Islamic justice, Ayatullah Mohammadi Gilani, was killed in an armed clash with the guards. He was the third and last Gilani son to die fighting the regime that his father protects...
...helping finance budget deficits. As a result, Western financial institutions now have more than $540 billion in loans outstanding to foreign borrowers. Even the IMF's associated institution, the World Bank, currently headed by former Bank-America President A.W. Clausen, has seen its portfolio of Third World loans rocket upward in recent years, though most of the loans have been for financially sound projects with a high probability of success...