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...showdown for the Ivy League title in Women's lacrosse between the Crimson and Dartmouth had been scheduled for yesterday, but coaches determined that Soldiers Field was unplayable following the storm. According to Ed Markey, Harvard Sports Information Director, the game will be rescheduled after the ECAC tournament this Weekend, probably for Monday or Wednesday...
...Saturday Showdown...
They expected a showdown, and nearly got a shutout...
Tensions escalate. The military goes on alert. A Soviet-American showdown seems probable. When a nuclear attack upon the U.S. is considered imminent, authority to use nuclear weapons is automatically "predelegated" to various military commanders. For a nation that mistakenly assumes only the President's finger is ever on the button, this little-known fact will come as a disconcerting discovery. In his first novel, State Scarlet (Putnam; $18.95), David Aaron, a top staffer at the National Security Council during the Carter Administration, uses fiction to show how the nation's command, control and communications system, known...
...next showdown between China's leaders will come this fall, when the 13th Communist Party Congress is to meet in Peking. The current political stalemate is likely to continue until that gathering, when top party and government posts will be filled. Among the appointments will be that of a permanent successor to Hu as party General Secretary, a job Premier Zhao now holds on an acting basis...