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First she cuts right, then back left. By the time Bevelander's through, she's danced 70 yards through a throng of Harvard women's lacrosse players, deposited the ball in the back of the Harvard net and sent the Crimson down to a last minute 7.6 loss a defeat that stands as one of the most disappointing in the squad's history...
...intercepted and harassed the joggers, drawing wide attention to the marathon. The protesters were forced to camp outside the Philippines capital for three days. By the time they resumed the run, the referendum was over, but the publicity given their detention prompted an emotional out pouring of support. A throng of 25,000 people turned out for an antigovernment rally. Aquino halted the run for a four-day rest, but vowed that he would carry a lighted torch all the way to the tarmac where his brother died...
...holiday celebration, coming in the fourth week of the U.S. military presence on Grenada, signaled that the state of war on the island was coming to an end. The throng of American journalists, once 700 strong, had dwindled to about ten, and 900 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division departed in time to eat their turkey at home. That left 1,200 combat and 1,900 support troops in Grenada, about half the total at the height of the invasion. In Washington, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pledged that almost all the soldiers would be home by Christmas. Said...
...irony is that Arafat retains much of his former popularity with the Palestinian people. Late last week an angry throng of 2,000 Arafat supporters gathered near Tripoli, but rebels fired on the crowd, killing 25. Arafat remains the symbol of the Palestinian cause, and he still has the support of a clear majority in the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s de facto parliament. But because of his indecisiveness, excessive caution and, most important, the heavy hand of Syria's Assad, Arafat has lost control of his fighting force...
...audience, as Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash shrewdly surmised, was far larger than the modest throng that gathered in Nicosia last week to cheer his proclamation of a new Turkish Cypriot republic on the divided Mediterranean island. It was a ringing declaration, but as soon as it was made public, Turkish Cypriot officials added an odd qualifier. The decision, they said, was not irreversible: what Denktash really had in mind was to call the world's attention to Turkish Cypriot demands, frustrated so far, for a federated Cyprus. Under the Denktash formula, equal political weight would be given...