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Border Alert. There was no assurance that the brother-and-sister team could withstand the rivalries and intrigues that beset Haitian politics. Haiti has seldom escaped violence during leadership changes. Many experts anticipate a period of intense but quiet rivalry between army and secret-police factions, which may later explode into open fighting...
Other qualities for the next dean mentioned in the report include scholarship and academic standing; firmness and strength of conviction; the willingness to defend unpopular positions; and the ability to withstand the pressures of confrontation and divisive tactics...
Through trial after trial, the institution has survived and prospered. Whether it will be able to withstand the acerbic tongue of one Howard Cosell remains to be seen...
...just let him go on talkin' to his own self," sighs Frazier. Meanwhile Joe is more concerned with hardening up his head to withstand Ali's stabbing left jabs. "Every day," he says, "I soak my head in rock salt and water. Who-e-e-e, does that make me mean! But it toughens my skin, and maybe it works on the bones. Conditioning?that's what this fight will be all about. And there's no way he's going to be in better shape than me. For him to win, he'd have to be in much better...
...facilitate this work, the police department has purchased some 24 armored vehicles from the Ford Motor Co. of the U. S. The cars, which are double iron-clad and made to withstand bullets from M16 rifles, have a capacity of eight men and are equipped with M60 machine guns...