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...open role of the Palestinians quickly caught the attention of neighboring Syria and Israel. Damascus is now known to be aiding the leftist Moslem forces there through its Saiqa fedayeen. Should Syrian assistance-or, less likely, outright intervention-threaten to tip the balance toward a Lebanon dominated by radical Arabs, the Israelis might respond with force because, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, such a situation would be "a real threat to Israel's security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Last Rights for a Mortally Wounded City | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

This year's Harvard-Princeton game, though, doesn't seem to threaten the existence of the Big Three of the Ivy League. The rivalry isn't that intense anymore--Princeton having been accepted as a clubby equal--and the key injury occurred before the game even started...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: Princeton Looking to Upset Crimson As Big Three Season Opens Today | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...remove it. Where Ford uses his strange, harum-scarum words for New York, Beame uses them for a federal government that won't come through--it's the government, not the city, that would bring on tragedy, plague, exorcism, humiliation, impoverishment and evasion. The government's non-intervention may threaten to open the floodgates to all sorts of abnormal and complex things, but there is "nothing abstract" about the city's problems. The crisis is accessible to plain people; the government's callousness...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Rhetorical Bankruptcy | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said in a quavering voice: "If you ask for proof that I am alive again, they threaten to cut off my foot and send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Adding Up to an Epidemic | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Which is precisely what the Harvard defense proceeded to do. The Crimson shut the Green out in the second half. Whenever Dartmouth did threaten, Harvard came up with the big play to kill the drive. All told, there were four fumbles and four interceptions forced by Harvard, and most of them came deep inside Crimson territory, just in time to snuff out a Green scoring chance...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Crimson Defense Thwarts Green, 24-10 | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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