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...showdown spotlighted the drug-related crisis of authority that rages through Latin America. Accused of taking million-dollar payoffs in return for allowing narcotics to flow through Panama, Noriega is a graphic illustration of the power of drug lords to intimidate and corrupt the region's governments (see following story). The general is believed to be closely tied to a cocaine trade that begins in the jungles of South America and ends in U.S. neighborhoods from Boston to Beverly Hills. That has helped make Noriega a prime target for U.S. law-enforcement officials and diplomats, who want the general brought...
Then, in the Harvard-Cornell showdown here four weeks ago, his short-handed goal also broke a 1-1 tie in the third period. Harvard won that game...
...because the Harvard-RPI series has turned into a great hockey rivalry, this series has all the makings of a good old-fashioned showdown...
...showdown won't slow down. As long as both teams have their six-shooters loaded this weekend...
...competition will be remembered as the final showdown in a battle that has set the Brians blade to blade since 1978, the pairs event will live as the moment when the world gave its heart to a tiny wisp of a girl named Katya. Not quite 5 ft. and not quite 90 lbs., Ekaterina Gordeeva was not quite like anyone else in the Saddledome. Fragile, with a smile that comes from over the rainbow, Katya has the gift of making her audience happy. Part of her secret may be that glorious smile. She has superb technique based on first-rate...