Word: squad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Over the years, a government crackdown against poppy growing reduced Iran's addicts to 35,000. However, smugglers began bringing in opium from Turkey and Afghanistan, and the number of addicts rose to 250,000 in 1968. As a result, the government last July prescribed death by firing squad for anyone convicted of possessing more than two kilograms of opium or ten grams of heroin, morphine or cocaine. Another eight men are scheduled to be executed this week, and at least 50 more are being held...
...Knights are now 2-3 (not counting the results of a late game against Niagara last night). They have fallen to a powerful Penn squad 80-71 at home, to Columbia in New York. 61-42, and to a Delaware team that they defeated last year by 32 points...
...several respects, a victory, and a decisive one, over Army. is mandatory. The Cadets are a much weaker squad than they were last winter, when forwards Dave Merhar and Tony Curran scored nearly 200 points to pace them to a highly successful season, and with both performers gone. Army is only a shadow of its former self...
Brown, which dumped Harvard last week in Cambridge, and Clarkson, which has most of the talent back from the squad that made it to the ECAC semifinals last year. battle Friday night, and whoever the victor is, Harvard will face nearly the same assignment in both quality and skating styles...
...disease affected one person in three, including 1,000 streetcar drivers and 330 policemen. City halls and law courts closed down, and pharmacies rationed medicines. In Turin, a third of the municipal employees were absent, and so was the city's entire squadra mobile, the elite police squad normally called out in emergencies. Two-thirds of the 1,000 residents of the tiny Tyrrhenian island of Ventotene were ill, including the only doctor...