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...debate. Mitterrand could settle for a draw. In the first round of presidential balloting on April 24, he emerged with 34% of the vote, putting him, as expected, far ahead of Chirac, who won 19.9%. That made the incumbent the odds-on favorite in the May 8 second-round runoff...
...second-round duel with Chirac got under way, Mitterrand's task was still daunting. He had to push Chirac as far toward Le Pen as possible in the hope that many of Barre's 5 million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
Thurman Thomas, a running back for Oklahoma State, concurred. "I don't think Harvard could compete against Oklahoma, Nebraska or any of the other big-time schools," said the formerHeisman nominee and recent second-round draft pickof the Buffallo Bills...
...Lowell was knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. So was Northeastern (by Division II Merrimack). Although Maine won its second-round series over Bowling Green (the first Hockey East playoff victory since 1985), it was dumped by Lake Superior State in Lake Placid...
Racquetwoman Sheila Morrissey won the first-round consolation championship at the ISA's for the second straight year, while Clark rebounded from, a first-round loss to finish in second place in the second-round consolation...