Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paced by its strong starting unit, Harvard easily defeated Queens, 11-7, URI, 14-9, and Brown...
...spikers' new starting unit was finally filled out by junior Seth Farber, who became, perhaps, the team's steadiest all-around player by the end of the season...
...were pinned down by North Vietnamese. With no retreat possible, Carpenter called down an air strike on his own position. "We might as well take some of them with us," he radioed to his battalion command post. The napalm attack injured seven of Carpenter's men, yet enabled the unit to consolidate and later withdraw. Already well known as the "Lonesome End" and captain of Army's 1959 football team, "Napalm Bill" Carpenter won a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Carpenter, 47, stayed in the Army; last December he was promoted to major general and put in command...
...wrong on at least three counts. Minister of Law and Order Louis LeGrange had contended that some of the 4,000 black marchers provoked the police gunfire. Fouche, however, admitted that the demonstrators had not, as claimed, thrown gasoline bombs at the police, had not surrounded the 19-man unit, and had not been led by a man wielding a brick. Soon afterward, Colonel Adolf Charlton Van Rooyen, chief of the South African riot police, testified that two days before the killings the police had been instructed to "eliminate" marchers throwing gasoline bombs...
Chicago Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden was a college student in 1965 when he decided to hitchhike around Southeast Asia. Among his stops: Saigon. Ogden returned to Viet Nam in 1968 as a U.S. Army lieutenant with an intelligence unit. Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart served in South Viet Nam as a Foreign Service officer from 1966 to 1970, first as a civilian district adviser in the pacification effort in Long An province, south of Saigon, then in the capital. "I don't think I ever worked so hard or played so hard as in those years," says Stewart. "By the time...