Word: squad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More ominous, right-wing death squads are reviving their grisly trade. By one count, death-squad killings totaled more than 50 in 1988, more than double the number in 1987. And despite U.S. pressure on the Salvadoran army to respect civilians, soldiers are accused of responding to the guerrilla offensive by kidnaping and murdering suspected sympathizers...
...Daily News. The top copy, the 1989 Year in Review/Swimsuit issue, was knocked off and opened to the comics page. Scrawled into the margins with the blood of nubile young oarsmen was a list of the secret cabal's top news events of the year. The Crimson's crack squad of investigative reporters/archaeologists, fresh from a screening of "Rambo XXIII: Rambo Meets Indiana Jones" starring Mike Tyson Jr. and Ron Reagan III, happened upon the site. They were able to salvage the following fragments for their readers...
...first anniversary of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers victory, administrators and union officials come to the table again. "This time it's for real," says Thayer H. Cabot Jr., director of the Anti-Union Relations Hit Squad, which replaced the former personnel office after the April 1 incident. T. H. Cabot lays out the University's new benefit package--privileges on the Villa I Tatti golf course in Florence, Italy and reduced health care costs at University Health Services...
...never with the bad kids." Her self-styled feminism was awakened early: she wanted to play basketball in high school but balked at the half-court games girls then had to play. At Purdue she ran for freshman-class treasurer and formed the Pep Girls, a pom-pom cheerleader squad that she directed with no nonsense. "At our meetings we didn't horse around," says former Pep Girl Barbara Little...
Finally, athletes provide their own support groups. According to Gielen, upperclassmen on the basketball team regularly offer advice and encouragment to the younger players. And Beth Chandler '89, co-captain of the women's hoop squad, says several of the science concentrators on the team get together twice a week to study...