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...leaving and we'll let them go quietly," said Abu Khalid, a Druze commander. But in the swirl of Lebanon's sectarian violence, the Marines were dangerously exposed. Even though the Druze and Amal leadership granted them safe passage, there remained the risk that extremists of some stripe would try to interfere with the withdrawal, either out of revenge or for political purposes of their own. No matter how orderly the pullout, it now seemed all but impossible for the Marines to turn over control of the airport to what is left of the Lebanese Army. This...
...backcourt, Bob Ferry controlled the pace of the Crimson attack. At the charity stripe, the nation's leading free-throw shooter sank eight of his attempts, hitting the rim once. Ferry also prevented All-American Johnny Dawkins from scoring once the Crimson went man-to-man towards...
...outlet reports a story badly, rival organizations can score a coup as well as honor their craft by setting the record straight. Indeed, most irate critics of bias in the press cite stories from other parts of the press to prove their case. For readers of almost any ideological stripe, the perceived or actual bias of some publication can be offset by the availability of others. In soliciting subscriptions from new readers, the conservative weekly Human Events, for example, cites the "distortions of the major networks and your daily newspaper" and offers as an antidote its own pages...
Five minutes into the second half, Catliff took the ball on the right side of the midfield stripe and lofted a long pass to Jay Hooper at the 20, who beat the UMass goalie with a low blast to the short side. It was the senior midfielder's first varsity goal and the last tally of the match, as the Crimson maintained control of the slow-paced game...
...opening 40 minutes, the booters looked ready to play their kind of match. Princeton stung them early, when Tiger midfielder John Bettino intercepted a bad pass at the half stripe and sent the ball to fellow halfback Tom Poz, who converted the breakaway...