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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach John Dooley showed his confidence in the young squad by playing six freshmen against the perennial ECAC power. The Friars won the ECAC Championship...

Author: By Caroline Miller, | Title: Icewomen Begin Season, Fall to Friars, 5-1 | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...solid core of experienced seniors and a talented bunch of newcomers, Harvard will not be short on talent. The Crimson has lost only three players from last year's squad to graduation and will return its top three scorers...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: M. Cagers Hope to Never Say Never Again | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

Smith averaged just 3.1 p.p.g. last year, but his ball-handling ability should free Gielen for far more. In the squad's pre-season scrimmage against St. Francis Xavier, Gielen was a fiery 10-for-17 from the field for 27 points...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: M. Cagers Hope to Never Say Never Again | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...Salvador a bitter civil war is in its ninth year, and the leftist guerrillas are stepping up their assaults on military and economic targets. Last March voters gave control of the legislative assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which has been linked in the past to death-squad activity. In presidential elections next March, ARENA is expected to defeat the moderate Christian Democrats, currently headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of cancer. The new government, backed by a reshuffled military, can be expected to move more aggressively against the guerrillas, which will probably mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America No Winners, Only Losers | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Bush there was a dastardly plot to eliminate him from the campaign. In the limousine on the way over to the network, Bush protested that he could answer questions about Iran; he had been doing so all along. Ailes said, "You don't understand something. This is a hit squad . . . They've got you up against the wall. They're putting the blindfold on you. It's all over, pal." It was all a plot on the part of Dan Rather, Ailes argued, who was not a newsman but an ideological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Populist | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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