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...lead to a bitter struggle between the Shi'ite majority and the Sunni Muslim and Christian minorities, not to mention the remaining Palestinian civilian population. In recent weeks, Shi'ite radicals have killed more than a dozen southern Lebanese as alleged collaborators with the Israelis. The Israeli pullback could spark a bloodier and more widespread settling of Lebanese scores. Precisely such an explosion took place between Lebanon's Christian and Druze militias following Israel's September 1983 withdrawal from the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut. Hundreds of Lebanese were killed and more than 100,000 were left homeless...
DIED. John Rock, 94, flinty, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist who played the key role in developing, testing and popularizing the birth control pill, which helped spark a revolution in sexual mores, population control and the status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used...
Perhaps the key element in the entire Crimson game plan will be junior Arne Duncan, who came off the bench midway through last season to spark Harvard's dramatic drive...
...really fight meet," freshman Dave Berkoff said, but "we pulled together and broke their morale." No one was more responsible for that than two other Yardlings, John Ritch and Chris Gould Going into the 100-yd. freestyle, the Crimson needed a spark to clinch the meet Ritch and Gould provided it by both checking in at 46 seconds, sharing first place honors and ending the Cadet threat...
Auto sales may give a spark to the economy. Much of the production slowdown in the third quarter resulted from strikes against General Motors by U.S. and Canadian workers. The walkouts and quotas limiting Japanese auto imports have intensified the current demand for cars. The automakers reported last week that sales...