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...brutal civil war in El Salvador was between battles last week. In the only major skirmish, Salvadoran soldiers clashed with armed teen-agers sympathetic to the rebel cause in the village of San Lorenzo. The toll, according to an army major: 40 guerrillas and one soldier dead. From their hideouts in remote areas near the border with Honduras, leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front emerged briefly to blockade roads and blow up a number of bridges and power lines. Meanwhile, death squads of both right and left still roamed the land, murdering anyone they suspected...
Harvard's inability to put any offensive thrust together came at least in part because the game had more fouls than Frank Perdue's farm. Four Harvard players fouled out and the rough physical action inside took its toll. "I never felt as sore as I do now," Fleming said afterwards. "I got knocked all over the place...
Throughout the first two games, Desaulniers' inexperience took its toll, as the seasoned Nimmick won handily. The third game, however, saw Desaulniers bounce back with previously absent dazzling shots and agility to take the game in professional style. Yet Nimmick copped the fourth game and the intercollegiate title by winning a 17-17 tiebreaker...
...opted for the latter course of action, but the gambit failed. The eight-minute match took its toll on Kief, and the senior co-captain dropped a 6-5 decision to Princeton's Deehan...
...chill has taken a heavy human toll as well. At least 46 people have died from weather-related causes since the cold wave became acute a month ago. A Dorchester, Mass., family placed plastic sheeting over windows to keep out the cold, using a portable gas heater for heat. Overcome by carbon monoxide, the father and a son died. Eight in Boston have already perished in fires this year, including an 18-month-old girl who knocked over a heater onto some newspapers...