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...ugly standards of Lebanon's recent history, the toll was not all that high. Just 17 months earlier, 63 people had been killed in the car bombing of the old U.S. embassy in West Beirut. Six months later, similar suicide bombings within moments of each other took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. Sixty-one others died two weeks after that when a bomb devastated an Israeli military headquarters in the southern port city of Tyre. In the meantime, of course, untold hundreds have died in the continuing chaos throughout Lebanon...
Despite the trips high toll, which Harvard Coach Martya Kingston described as particularly painful because an injury had already kept All-American forward Bobby Hackett from suiting up, the Crimson had tittle trouble with the host Black Bears...
...ships and helicopters of three nations-the U.S., Britain and France-joined the search last week, but the mystery of the Red Sea mines remained unsolved. As the toll of vessels damaged by explosions while sailing either to or from the Suez Canal reached 19, British and French ships and U.S. helicopters were hard at work trying to locate and identify one or more of the mines that were presumed to be causing the trouble. By week's end none had been recovered, though a Cairo newspaper reported that an Egyptian team had detonated a mine...
Eileen Deutsch, 15, of Queens, N.Y., lay fatally injured; she died in the emergency room. Miraculously, the death toll by Saturday evening was only one. More than 50 other people had been injured, five critically, including a two-year-old baby. Said Fire Inspector Ed Reed: "If someone had not told me what had actually happened, with the debris and number of victims, I would have assumed that a bomb had gone...
...middle-distance runner: "I love to run." Some of Decker's zeal may stem from her childhood, the feuding and eventual divorce of her parents: "If you come out of things like that in the right frame of mind, you're just more competitive." Such resolve exacts a toll. Her relentless training has led to a series of injuries, including one that kept her out of the 1976 Olympics. Then came her two dramatic victories last summer at the world championships in Helsinki, making Decker, who will run only the 3,000 meters in Los Angeles, the favorite for Olympic...