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Knock on wood, though. Tomorrow the team faces its stiffest challenge of the season when it meets a strong Boston University and four other area colleges in the fifth annual Greater Boston Championships at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center...
With the likes of undefeated and top-seeded North Carolina (UNC) and Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) as probable opponents in the finals and semi-finals, the booters can expect the stiffest competition under the toughest conditions (three tight games in three days) of the year...
...JENNIFER WHITE; 8,4 for 12; KERRY BRYAN: 8, 0, for 8; WISTIE OPPENLANDER; 1, 4, for 5; CHRIS SAILER; 0, 2, for 2; ANNIE VELIE; 1, 1, for 2: SARAH SEWALL; 1, 0, for 1; ZANNE VINE; 1, 0, for 1; The laxwomen face their stiffest challenge since spring break Saturday when they travel to Amherst to face UMass...
Mounting fears of Soviet intervention prompted the Reagan Administration late last week to issue its stiffest warning yet on the Polish situation. A day after the leaders of the ten European Community nations had warned against outside interference, the White House declared that "any external intervention in Poland, or any measures aimed at suppressing the Polish people. . . could have a grave effect on the whole course of East-West relations." To underline Washington's concern, Secretary of State Alexander Haig later described events in Poland as "very bad, very dangerous...
...next stiffest sentence-life imprisonment-went to the Gang of Four's Wang Hongwen, 46, who had rocketed from obscurity to the No. 3 slot in the Communist Party hierarchy during the Cultural Revolution. The fourth member of the Gang, Propagandist Yao Wenyuan, 49, got 20 years. The other six defendants, including five former top military officers convicted of plotting to kill Mao in 1971, got sentences ranging from 16 to 18 years in prison...