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...Kissinger report, were brought home in a more poignant way last week in the isthmus. A U.S. Army observation helicopter was forced down under mysterious circumstances in Honduran territory. The pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Jeffery C. Schwab, 27, of Joliet, Ill., was killed by Sandinistas firing from 100 yds. away across the Nicaraguan border. He was the first U.S. serviceman to die in combat in Honduras since the U.S. began greatly expanding its military presence in that country a year ago (three have died in accidents), and only the second to die under fire in Central America during the Reagan...
...Cooke, Gibbs lost his first five Redskins games without panicking, then began winning at a Lombardian rate. He stresses fundamentals but is willing to lateral on punts. Under Gibbs, Theismann has changed from a slapdash quarterback to an efficiency expert (276 completions in 459 pass attempts for 3,714 yds., 29 touchdowns and only eleven interceptions...
...revolt in Nigeria, was back in that country last week to report on the sudden military coup. He got there, barely, in a small chartered plane from the Ivory Coast. "Over Lagos," says Wilde, "the harmattan, a dust-laden wind blowing from the Sahara, had reduced visibility to 500 yds. On our first try at landing, one wing nearly scraped the runway; we began to stall. But our nerveless Ivorian pilot gunned the motor, and the plane lifted, shuddering. We made it on the second pass and emerged, wobbly with fear...
...N.C.A.A. record. Among the last dozen Heisman-winning running backs, only Billy Sims of Oklahoma (1978) carried so seldom (an average 23 times a game compared with 30 last season for Georgia's Herschel Walker). Still, Rozier leads the nation's rushers with 2,148 yds., 7.8 per carry. In Rozier's third straight 200-yd. game this year, against Kansas, he set the school record of 285 yds. and then retired for the fourth quarter. Similarly, the passing and receiving figures of Gill and Fryar are stunted by the amount of time they spend as observers...
Before he quit in 1965, former Cleveland Browns Fullback Jim Brown, 47, set the alltime National Football League record for yardage gained with a nine-season total of 12,312 yds. But with Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris, 33, beyond the 11,000-yd. mark and closing, Brown is seriously considering dusting off his pads. "I'm not in a grave," steams Brown. "I'm active, alive, and I don't like to be talked about like I'm dead." Brown has set a few conditions, however. He wants to play with the Los Angeles Raiders. Harris...