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...doubles, Fountaine and Grossman were both ruthless at the net, and Columbia's Saputo and second seed Gary Jacobs had trouble getting any shots past them. When they did, Fountaine's powerful backcourt drives kept them moving. Harvard took the match...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Netmen Go on a Lion Hunt, Patterson Wins Three Events | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...seem to interest Belaúnde. The President wrote off the Easter massacre as "an insanity perpetrated by people who are psychologically unhinged." Although he has deployed his troops, Belaunde will need a more detailed and determined policy if he is to save Andean villagers from their ruthless oppressors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Bloody Sunday | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...everyone. An exceptionally violent streak seems to run through the trade. Says the DEA's Bacon about the Colombian gangs: "They're absolutely ruthless, and they've imported their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...wonder if anyone is ever young or ruthless enough, to live there entirely. Dolphins won't take us. We must wait...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Eye-Opener | 3/19/1983 | See Source »

...calling early elections, Fraser had hoped to catch the opposition off-balance. After seven years in power, the rugged, often ruthless Prime Minister has seen his popularity decline with the economy. Unemployment runs currently at 10.1%, its highest rate since the Depression; inflation remains high at 11.2% annually; and the recession that began in 1981 shows every sign of deepening. To combat these problems, Fraser appeared two weeks ago in the town hall of Malvern, a cozy suburb of Melbourne, to promise more jobs for the young, more money for education, and tax cuts for small companies. On the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Preying Hawke | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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