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...showdown came at an emergency stockholders meeting demanded by De Benedetti and his allies, where more than 1,000 shareholders crowded into a carnival tent set up behind Societe Generale's elegant offices in Brussels. Despite a last-minute plea by De Benedetti, in which he argued that the 166- year-old conglomerate, best known as La Generale, needed better management, he was rebuffed...
Harvard's main obstacle toward another Ivy championship will probably be Dartmouth. The teams tied for the league title last year. This year's showdown is slated for April 26 in Hanover...
...Soviet border. Officials in Washington and Islamabad, on the other hand, are confident that the mujahedin will score telling successes against the unpopular Najibullah regime and its 150,000-man security forces, fewer than 20,000 of whom are considered reliable. In preparation for what may become the final showdown, both Washington and Moscow have been shipping large amounts of arms to their allies. Says a U.S. Defense official in Washington: "Both sides appear to be very well supplied at the moment...
...even as the U.S.-Panamanian showdown grew more bitter, rumors circulated that the two sides might strike a deal. According to Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, a Noriega envoy had asked whether the indictment could be withdrawn. "The general is willing to go, but he's not going to be dragged out like a dog," said a Panamanian who knows the general well. Another Panamanian hinted that the leader might consider retiring on April 23, the 25th anniversary of his entrance into the Defense Forces. A second possible date: Aug. 12, when Noriega completes...
...tonight, THE GAME is the Harvard-Dartmouth women's basketball showdown at Briggs Cage, which will be broadcast by WHRB beginning at 7:15 p.m., the first-ever women's basketball game broadcast by that radio station...