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...this lies the tale of the Cliffe stickwomen's frustrating scoreless tie, in yesterday's game against the Corsairs of Southeastern Mass At Soldier's Field...
...Southeastern Mass Corsairs will come sailing into Soldier's Field today to tackle a newly revamped Radcliffe field hockey fleet. Last year the Cliffe stickwomen sunk to the depths of Davy Jones's locker with a dismal 1-9-2 slate, but this year under the helm of first year skipper, Debi Field, a new crew and much enthusiasm, the squad is looking to reverse that record...
...understatement. The football-field ceremony ended more than 90 years of mostly benevolent foreign rule by, in turn, Germany, Britain and Australia. Except for a few years during World War II, when Japanese troops overran much of the island, Australia had governed Papua-the island's southeastern quadrant-since 1906, and adjoining northeastern New Guinea since World War I under League of Nations and U.N. mandates. Prodded initially by the U.N. and by its own dislike of the colonial image, the Whitlam government fairly rushed the reluctant colony into self-rule (in 1973) and now full independence...
...death toll was not limited to Lice. Landslides and other side effects that were set off by the earthquake killed at least another 1,000 in dozens of nearby hillside villages. An estimated 30,000 inhabitants of this remote southeastern farm region have been left homeless, and about 3,000 injuries have been reported...
...stream of refugees chose the inland route across the shifting sands of the Namib Desert into South West Africa. Others boarded fishing trawlers sailing down the southeastern Atlantic's treacherous Skeleton Coast to Walvis Bay. Still others joined a convoy of trucks that crossed the Cunene River and headed along the scorched Namib coastline, known locally as the Coast of Loneliness. The refugees were the vanguard of an estimated 350,000 people who are trying desperately to escape from Angola. As the vicious civil war among the Portuguese territory's three black independence parties has steadily worsened...