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Harvard dominated not only on the scoreboard, but also in all statistical areas. The squad scooped up 61 groundballs, as compared to only 40 for the Wildcats. The Crimson won 16 of the 22 faceoffs and failed clear the ball only five times, while New Hampshire failed to clear the ball eight times...
...Schoenfeld was hired as head coach in the middle of the team's horrendous mid-season slump, and his defensive wizardry helped the squad close in on Pittsburgh and the New York Rangers for the fourth and final playoff spot...
During the attack, air force personnel, flying a Boeing 707 fitted with electronic jamming devices, hovered about 100 miles outside Tunisian airspace, close enough to jam communications in the area. The Boeing 707 also served as a relay station between Israeli personnel off the Tunisian coast, the hit squad and I.D.F. headquarters in Tel Aviv. Throughout the operation, the commanding general, Ehud Barak, 47, the army's Deputy Chief of Staff, stayed aboard the vessel in the Mediterranean. Barak had participated in a similar operation in April 1973, when Israeli commandos raided Palestinian headquarters in Beirut, killing three P.L.O. leaders...
...guards but, as instructed, did not harm al-Wazir's family. By 4 a.m. they had returned to their ship. A few days later, they landed safely in Haifa harbor. An ironic footnote: al-Wazir had plotted a similar operation in 1985 that aimed to land a hit squad on Israeli soil, sailing first by boat from Algeria, then from mid-sea by dinghy. Israeli missile boats intercepted the ship, aborting the plan...
...details emerge about the assassination of Khalil al- Wazir by an Israeli hit squad, debate persists over whether his death will deepen unrest in the occupied territories. -- An interview with Jordan' s King Hussein. -- Mounting its most serious military strike in the gulf so far, the U. S. clobbers Iran at sea. -- In Moscow, signs of a Politburo power struggle between Gorbachev...