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...Army's videotape is spectacular. As unmanned planes sweep into view, the high-tech antiaircraft gun on the ground swivels and blows them out of the sky. It looks like a brilliant performance by one of the Pentagon's most controversial new weapons, the Sergeant York division air-defense gun, known as the DIVAD. In a test last year, the gun's laser-and-radar guidance system could not even hit a stationary helicopter, one of many embarrassments for the problem-plagued system. This time, claimed the contractor, Ford Aerospace, the weapon destroyed "six of seven high-performance aircraft...
Democrats got their own back in Virginia, where they won a sweep of the races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and attorney general. Governor-elect Gerald Baliles, a lackluster former attorney general, is a protégé of popular current Democratic Governor Chuck Robb, who was barred by law from another term. Some suggested that Baliles was simply a stand-in for Robb, Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law and a founder of the conservative Democratic Leadership Council...
...before All Souls' Day, a Roman Catholic holiday also known as the Day of the Dead. As part of the Mexican government's efforts to crack down on drug smugglers, 17 policemen made a sweep of the mountainous "bandit country" in the state of Veracruz, 300 miles southeast of Mexico City. Nearing the banks of the Coachapa River in predawn darkness, the government force surprised a gang of some 50 drug traffickers in the act of loading 1,300 lbs. of marijuana onto a boat. The police had hardly shouted a warning when the smugglers opened fire...
...Bears’ four-game sweep of defending division champion Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., gave the Crimson extra leverage in the Red Rolfe Division race. By sweeping aside Brown—which sits a game back of first place—next weekend, Harvard would clinch at least a tie for its first division crown since...
Perfection was short-lived for the Harvard men’s lightweights, as the varsity lost a tight race to Georgetown on Sunday. After Saturday’s dominant sweep of Cornell and Penn, it seemed the Crimson would wrap up the weekend with further successes on Sunday. Harvard’s opponents had other ideas...