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After a close loss to Navy early in the afternoon at the MAC, the Crimson (4-5 overall, 0-4 Ivy) came up with its first win since December 2 by sweeping all three weapon categories MIT in the late afternoon. The Harvard women's team lost both matches to Navy...
...taking such high-handed actions, Lenin now had the weapon of a new police force known as the Cheka, which authorized local soviets to "arrest and shoot immediately" all members of "counterrevolutiona ry organizations." When a Socialist Revolutionary named Fanny Kaplan shot Lenin in the neck, the Cheka rounded up and executed 500 of her party comrades in one night. Lenin's view: "We have never renounced and cannot renounce terror." As for the future role of the Communists, the Eighth Party Congress decreed in 1919 that "the Russian Communist Party should master for itself undivided political supremacy...
...used to punish pressure," Cormier said. "We used to use it as an offensive weapon. Now, we say, 'Phew' when we get it over and once we get it over, then we had to contend with the best half-court defense in the league...
...Administration's position in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) is, in one key respect, still mired in the past. It is designed to preserve, in its redundant entirety, Ronald Reagan's so-called strategic modernization program. "Modernization" is a euphemism for breeding a whole aviary of brand-new weapon systems: not one but two long-range bombers (the B- 1 and B-2 "Stealth"), not one but two ICBMs (the ten-warhead MX and the Midgetman), not one but two species of cruise missiles (air launched and sea launched), plus a submarine missile. The cost: nearly $100 billion over...
...Army attempts to build an antisatellite weapon would be put on hold. The U.S. depends far more heavily than the Soviet Union on satellites for intelligence and communications. It would have far more to lose in any competition with Moscow to see who could build the deadliest satellite killers. Saving: $1.4 billion...