Word: six
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Maybe Carril will notice that the Crimson actually trailed by six points at halftime, and then turned around and outscored the Judges, 33-21, to pull out the victory. "Hummm, pretty impressive for a team that would fold after falling behind in the first half last year," Carril might think, no longer sporting that snicker...
...slaying on Nov. 16 in San Salvador of six Jesuit priests has caused such outrage in Washington that Congress is suddenly talking about reducing U.S. aid if the Cristiani regime does not conduct a thorough investigation. Last week the House of Representatives narrowly blocked a Democratic proposal to hold back 30% of the $85 million in U.S. military aid to El Salvador this year. The events of the past two weeks also underscore U.S. intelligence failures, most notably the now apparent undercounting of the F.M.L.N. forces. Judging by the scope of the rebel push, Washington officials concede that there...
Future U.S. relations with El Salvador will be strongly influenced by how the Cristiani government handles the investigation into the killing of the six Jesuits. It has become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of seeing as many as 30 men in olive-drab uniforms enter the priests' residence, and one woman said she heard a voice over a shortwave radio say, "We've done it." At week's end the woman had been escorted out of the country by embassy officials and flown...
...leftists' new offensive shows some staying power, as critics in Washington raise more questions about the murder of six Jesuit priests. A President is assassinated in Beirut...
...From railways to power lines, the Soviet Union's infrastructure is crumbling because of lack of maintenance. In the Ukrainian city of Lvov (pop. 830,000), citizens get running water only twice a day, for a total of six hours...