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...tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained at 7% in March helped intensify the rout on the Big Board. The Dow was down nearly 69 points on the day, to close...
...fifth-ranked Harvard women's lacrosse team, which had slipped in the national polls after a mediocre spring break showing, took a step last night toward reasserting its might with a 13-2 rout of Boston College...
...Serb gunners. Coincidentally or not, Serb forces mounted withering attacks throughout the region, forcing thousands of civilians into frigid mountain terrain. Despite the airlift's pressure on the advancing Serbs to move pre- emptively, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher insisted that "we have no indication" it sparked the rout. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, however, raised the specter of a Serb "massacre" of Muslims. At week's end Serb commanders offered to allow safe passage to fleeing civilians, a move that could save lives but would also amount to what a U.N. official called "taxi service...
HELICOPTER GUNSHIP ATTACKS, GROUND RAIDS, more casualties -- the news from Somalia increasingly resembles reports from a war zone. To enforce a cease- fire between rival warlords, four rocket- and cannon-firing U.S. Cobra choppers teamed up with Belgian paratroopers to rout forces advancing on the southern port of Kismayu; reports had eight Somalis killed and about 40 wounded. On Saturday at dusk, 700 U.S. troops backed by helicopters swept into the crossroads town of Afgoi to flush out bandit gangs that have been ambushing supplies en route to the famine belt. Meanwhile, in Mogadishu, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Anthony Botello...
Williams also showed up and met with the same fate as the Engineers. The Ephmen (what the hell is an Ephman?) won only two games in a 9-0 Crimson rout...