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Only four starters return from that highlight-making defensive unit Experienced seniors filled four linemen's positions and the entire corps last season. And now they're gone. Last year's secondary is still intact and should help teach the younger players Penn's "50" defense...
...veteran defensive unit returns nine starters, including first-team All-Ivy linebacker Rory Wilfork and 27-year-old defensive tackle Eric Keck, Wilfork led the team in tackles (127), tackles for a loss (16) and forced fumbles (3). The Lill brothers, linebacker lake and strong safety Jim, combined for 130 tackles last season...
Only once in the past 20 years has the head of the Senate unit also been chairman of a major legislative committee. So far this year, D'Amato has leveraged his Banking Committee power to raise $14 million for Senate candidates and open the wallets of Wall Street for Bob Dole, who calls him "the man who won't take yes for an answer." Common Cause president Ann McBride doesn't share Dole's sense of humor on the subject. "When the Banking chairman comes calling as the party's chief fund raiser," she says, "and comes...
...popular practice of imposing mandatory sentences, a response to public anger over inadequate prison terms, is making it harder to offer time off as a reward for good behavior. To ban such things as TV and recreation as well, warns warden Thomas McKinney of the Alfred Hughes state prison unit in Gatesville, Texas, would "take away one of our best management tools...
...public acknowledgment by a retired Israeli general that, as a captain, he helped massacre 49 Egyptian POWs during the 1956 war in the Sinai stirred other veterans to speak out about similar atrocities in the war of 1967. The unit allegedly involved in the 1956 incident was commanded by right-wing politician Rafael Eitan, who intends to run for Prime Minister in 1996. At Egypt's request, the Israeli government ordered an investigation...