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First doubles competition yielded a showdown for an NCAA Eastern Regional berth between the Harvard demolition duo of Henikoff and deLone, and the Eagles' Lane and Piorkowski...
Friday at 2 p.m., the Yale women's tennis team invades Bern Tennis Center for a showdown between last year's Ivy co-champs. Last year, the Elis upset the Crimson, 5-4, to snap Harvard's 45-game Ivy winning steak, dating back from the 1982-83 season...
Like the Lithuanians, the Estonians are bracing for a showdown over the issue of military conscription. The Estonian parliament has approved a law on alternative military service, and plans to dismantle local draft boards. Local movements like Geneva-49, a citizens' action group opposed to the draft, have denounced service in the Soviet army as a violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions barring citizens of occupied states from having to serve in the occupation forces...
...truly multiracial society will undoubtedly prove much harder to govern. Even seemingly race-free conflicts will be increasingly complicated by an overlay of ethnic tension. For example, the expected showdown in the early 21st century between the rising number of retirees and the dwindling number of workers who must be taxed to pay for the elders' Social Security benefits will probably be compounded by the fact that a large majority of recipients will be white, whereas a majority of workers paying for them will be nonwhite...
Last week the master of delay found himself cornered, however. Forced to choose between accepting U.S. Secretary of State James Baker's compromise plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Cairo and risking the collapse of his national unity government, Shamir stuck to his ideology. After a dramatic showdown on the floor of the Knesset, he became the first Israeli leader ever to be evicted from office when Labor Party leader Shimon Peres pushed through a vote of no confidence by a margin...