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General of the Army Dmitri Yazov, 63, who leapfrogged over twelve more senior members of the Soviet high command to become the new Defense Minister, made his debut at a two-day conference in Moscow of high-ranking Warsaw Pact officers. A career soldier with combat experience in World War II, Yazov is believed to have made a favorable impression on Gorbachev during the Soviet leader's visit last summer to Vladivostok, where the general was based as commander of the U.S.S.R.'s far eastern military district. Yazov was summoned to Moscow last February and given the Defense Ministry...
...sailors finished with 147 points to out-distance 15 other schools in the two-day competition. Connecticut College (154 points), Yale (160) and Tufts (167) nabbed the next three places to gain berths in the national tourney. The win earned Harvard its first New England title since 1959, and the team's only New England championship under retiring Coach Mike Horn...
Dukakis, who planned to take off again today for an afternoon of campaigning in New Hampshire, chaired a cabinet meeting, celebrated Greek Independence Day, denounced auto theft, met with realtors and attacked the paperwork that piled up during his two-day visit to Iowa...
Harvard then traveled to Williamsburg, Va., for a two-day round-robin tournament hosted by William and Mary. Each squad played 12 mini-games, none of which counted on the teams' records...
What do the contras say about who supplied them with funds during 1984 and '85, when Congress officially had cut off their U.S. backing? Following a two-day session with a grand jury in Washington, Contra Leader Adolfo Calero declared that retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub had helped the Nicaraguan rebels to "engineer" arms deals worth millions of dollars. Calero also declared that his own contra group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, had received $32 million from non-American private donors. (Actually, most of that money is known to have come from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd...