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...message never sunk in for 17 seniors on the Harvard football team. When the going got tough--when The Crimson disclosed seniors had signed a letter criticizing the coaching reign of Joe Restic--these big, tough football players turned into towards...
...many exotic modern weapons that have come into play in the Falklands dispute (see box), flashed toward the Belgrano. Both hit their target. About 40 minutes later the stricken Belgrano disappeared from British and Argentine radar screens, the biggest casualty of the war. Indeed, it was the largest warship sunk in a naval engagement since Admiral William Halsey's attacks on the Japanese Inland...
...Buenos Aires, a dispatch ship, the Sobral, had been fired on by British missile-carrying Lynx helicopters as it searched for a downed Canberra bomber crew within the 200-mile zone. The British said that the Sobral and another Argentine boat had been hit and at least one sunk. A day later, the Sobral limped back into the Argentine port of Deseado with eight dead crewmen...
Another military lesson of the war is that world arms sales often beget unintended consequences. The flagship of the Argentine fleet is an aircraft carrier built by Britain; the Sheffield was sunk by a missile made in France. U.S. proposals to sell F-5E fighter jets to Taiwan have exacerbated another lingering territorial dispute. Vice President George Bush went to Peking last week to try to ease Sino-American tensions caused by the proposed arms sale...
...first time in its long history, the Strauss Cup was "quadded" yesterday as a strong showing by Currier House boats in the intramural crew races sunk Eliot House's chances...