Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to two weeks ago, the Crimson hopes to have a quicker draw. Harvard's senior corps knows from now on that any weekend could be its last one. Senior defenseman Don Sweeney, still bothered by an ankle injury sustained in the home game with Vermont, leads a veteran group that is used to playoff pressure...
...some 300 teenagers from their homes, according to eyewitness accounts, handcuffed them and, after checking their identities, impressed about 50 into the army. Over the next three nights, relatives and friends of the young men torched official cars, set bonfires and clashed with riot police. Said a local army veteran who was maimed fighting the contras: "I'll fight for my mother but not for the Sandinista front...
...normal and also snakebit, however, is a bit much. Injuries hit the U.S. men hard, and all but wiped out the women's team. Veteran Doug Lewis, who cracked a collarbone when a Soviet coach who was taking pictures blundered into his path during a ski test a few weeks ago, creaked to 32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney...
...VETERAN'S BENEFITS...
Some 2 million veterans with service-related disabilities receive payments. Half of them have disabilities that in the Government's estimation impair their capabilities by no more than 30%. Examples: moderately flat feet and partly amputated fingers. Even though these problems do not seriously impair a veteran's ability to work, individuals receive up to $128 a month. Ending those payments, while giving the veterans free medical care for their disabilities, would save about $2 billion...