Word: guardedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Individual Harvard players played well in spots, but the team never mustered a concerted effort. Point guard Ann Scannell, for instance, scored all of her eight points during a brilliant burst near the game's end after failing to dent the formidable UNH defense for the entire first half...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder's one pleasure last night had to be the performance of freshman guard Nancy Boutillier, who led the team in scoring with 11 points. Unfortunately, when Boutillier was on, everyone else...
...calendar. Accounts of the mosque takeover vary, but it appears that a band of about 200 armed men entered the courtyard, filled with 50,000 worshipers, shortly before the start of dawn prayers. The men wore the traditional black robes and red-and-white checked headdresses of the National Guard irregulars. They carried coffins-a common enough sight, since mourners often bring coffins to the mosque for dawn prayers before burial. These coffins apparently contained pistols, rifles, submachine guns, hand grenades and daggers...
...then had begun dropping tear gas on the besieged holy place. In the great courtyard, the attackers were haranguing their hostages to proclaim Mohammed Abdullah al-'Utaibah the promised messiah. But they fled in panic to the upper floors of the mosque and its seven minarets when National Guard troops suddenly burst through the gates of the mosque and armored vehicles with artillery and machine guns quickly encircled the Ka'ba. To minimize damage to the mosque, the government had ordered its troops to move in with knives and to use them in hand-to-hand combat, with...
Events in Mecca were being followed closely and with great concern in Tunisia, where 20 Arab heads of state, plus Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, had gathered for their annual meeting. An honor guard wearing plumed gold helmets presented arms with drawn swords as the leaders trooped into Tunis' Palais de Congrès for a summit that one Kuwaiti delegate predicted would be a "love feast." He meant that there would be no public arguments about divisive subjects and that the leaders would merely reaffirm their opposition to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for signing the Camp David...