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...After that, we were determined to beat them," junior Deb Kory said earlier in the season. "For the rest of the regular season we were just sort of waiting for Eastern when we would play them again. That was going to be the showdown...
Harvard might have figured that Easterns was destined to go the way of the Tigers when the site of the showdown was changed from Ithaca, N.Y. to Princeton's own backyard only weeks before the October 24-26 meet. But, whether believing in the dictates of fate or not, they could have done very little to stop the Princeton machine; the Tigers put in a great team performance to repeat as Eastern champions...
ASSAULT WEAPONS: In a lobbying showdown between the National Rifle Association and the gun-control movement, the House voted 216 to 214 on May 5 to ban the sale of 19 designated assault weapons. Last fall the Senate passed a similar measure 50 to 49. Now an uncontested part of the Omnibus Anti-Crime Bill, the weapons ban will face its next legislative test when reconciliation is completed, probably in the next two weeks...
...forced the U.S. to step carefully. The Administration has been equally anxious that a nuclear- armed North Korea might touch off an atomic-arms race destabilizing all of North Asia. The crisis-a-month inspection drama narrows maneuvering room for each of the partners, pushing them closer to a showdown. And amid the maddening back and forth, there is a disturbing possibility that North Korea may be employing the fuel-rod dispute as a smoke screen to disguise a second, undeclared source of bombmaking uranium...
Whatever Clinton decides is not likely to be overturned by Congress, where opponents could not muster the two-thirds votes needed to override a presidential veto if legislators forced a showdown. But Clinton will take a political roasting no matter what he does. Administration officials say he has come to see the wisdom of extending MFN and delinking it from human rights, which he could promote better by diplomatic means. But politically he cannot afford to take such a forthright stand yet. Instead, the President seems to be aiming for the now familiar sort of compromise that pleases...