Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government had been under growing pressure to take action since the hit- squad affair burst onto the front pages of the country's newspapers in October. At that time a prisoner on death row, former policeman Butana Almond Nofomela, alleged that he had been part of a team that "eliminated" Mxenge in 1981. After being named in Nofomela's affidavit, former police captain Dirk Coetzee went public in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad with a story of how he headed a police hit squad between 1980 and 1982 that carried out at least nine assassinations, including that of Mxenge...
...Crimson had ruthlessly slammed the door on 27 games in a row--three straight matches--against Navy, Franklin & Marshall and Trinity. But Saturday, Cornell blurred the Crimson player's visions of shutouts dancing in their heads...
...Harvard men's squash team (4-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy) rallied its way to a 7-2 victory against Cornell Saturday afternoon. Spoiled by three shutouts in a row, the team was happy--but not ecstatic--with its victory over last year's number-six ranked team...
...five starters scored in double figures for the second game in a row as the Crimson weathered a late surge by the Cats en route to the victory. Harvard started the game with an 8-0 run in the first two minutes, setting the tempo for the rest of the half. The Crimson extended its lead to 13-2, but a furious Vermont comeback put the Cats...
...unanswerable questions of children are treated with dignity and humor in Does God Have a Big Toe? (Harper & Row; $14.95). Marc Gellman, a rabbi, patiently retells Bible stories from a youthful view: Noah said to his friend, "You know, Jabal, this might be a very good time for you to take those swimming lessons you have been talking about for so long." Adam and his wife, Moses and his tablets, Joseph and his coat -- all are here with their moral testaments, made even easier to apprehend with Oscar de Mejo's eloquent landscapes of Eden and afterward...