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Running back Tony Hinz, Harvard's leading rusher, returned to action Saturday after breaking his right hand in the Crimson's game against Brown three weeks ago. Hinz rushed for 95 yards on 17 carries. Wingback Jim Reidy, the Crimson's spark plug in last week's game against Boston University, rushed for 61 yards on eight carries...
...beer in the car and they're underage. Or they have an expired license. Or they have an outstanding warrant for nonsupport." Most of the runaway drivers are in their teens or 20s, while those doing the chasing tend to be young, inexperienced officers. For the cops, pursuits can spark up long hours of dull patrol duty. In addition, "there is a John Wayne syndrome," notes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington; police work attracts some aggressive "risk takers" who are apt to get caught up in macho antics...
...plates. Their tactics are often brutally simple. In Gaza undercover soldiers jumped from a car and clubbed Palestinian activists who were threatening Arab workers for violating a strike. Palestinian sources say the soldiers have also posed as members of the P.L.O. and beaten up rival Palestinians in attempts to spark internal warfare. Some of the Cherry soldiers even impersonate journalists, nabbing suspects in mid-interview. "We have done more than anyone else to restore order," boasts one ex-member. "They never know where we will...
...scandals that have plagued the Mulroney government are only incidental entertainments amid the imbroglios over free trade. And because the issue touches the core of Canada's sense of itself as a nation and its psychic separation from the U.S., the topic is dangerously flammable, an invitation to a spark...
Extinguishing that spark will be no small task, since Mulroney called the election in part to force passage of the trade pact in the Liberal-controlled Senate. Though Mulroney sought to turn the race into a referendum on his leadership, the trade issue has not only dogged him but has also put him in a seemingly contradictory situation. While he is running as the man who led Canada into an era of sunny prosperity, he is also campaigning on the claim that free trade is the sine qua non of Canada's economic future...