Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that all adds up to possibly the finest offensive unit in the Ivies. But what has insiders at Penn smiling is not the offense but the defense...
...except those for the Law School, should be bought through the Harvard College Library and that books donated to Harvard be catalogued through the College Library. But that arrangement quickly broke down--and a century later, Handlin says, "the basic situation remains unchanged. The absolute autonomy of each individual unit sometimes creates an infuriating impasse at the center, which is armed only with the instrument of moral suasion...
Meanwhile, the defense returns seven starters from the unit that asked fourth in the league a year ago. Middle guard John Zenieski, linebacker Ardel McKenna and safety Bob Dooley are legitimate. All-Ivy defenders, and highly souled Carmen lineque, who sat out last season with a shoulder injury, is also back at one linebacker spot...
Some points are not in dispute. Parker, 36, was a popular 13-year veteran of the police department in Huntsville and an active weekend officer in the Alabama National Guard's elite Special Forces unit at nearby Decatur. The CIA had used the Alabama Air National Guard surreptitiously in the early 1960s to train Cuban exiles as pilots for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Powell, also 36, had piloted helicopters in Viet Nam, surviving three crashes caused by enemy fire. Parker belonged to a little-known anti-Communist organization in Alabama called the Civilian Military Assistants group...
Perhaps the cruelest blow for would-be police mesmerizers came in 1982, when the California Supreme Court banned previously hypnotized witnesses from testifying. The decision sharply curbed the operation of the Los Angeles police department's busy hypnosis unit, whose officers now use their skills only in dead-end cases. It also cut back the activities at Los Angeles' Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute, which, beginning in 1976, trained more than 1,000 officers from across the country in hypnotic-interrogation techniques; they in turn trained thousands more...