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...seconds into the final stanza. The icemen, not quite sure how to handle a 9-2 lead, began to falter, and Northeastern flooded the Crimson zone and seemed ready to put a few more past Lau. But the junior netminder's point-blank stop of a Tim Jacobs bullet repulsed one threat, and his stick save of Craig Frank darter slapped away another...
President Duarte boasted that the guerrilla offensive had been contained "without the use of a single American bullet." Nevertheless, in response to the guerrilla offensive, the U.S. discarded earlier misgivings and rushed to El Salvador's assistance with $10 million in military aid. By way of justification, U.S. diplomats argued that the increasing flow of sophisticated weaponry to the leftists from foreign sources indicated that the antigovernment forces had, in the words of U.S. Ambassador Robert White, "upped the ante." The envoy pointed the finger mostly at Nicaragua, not only as a transit point for arms, but also...
Aided by two Eagle penalties, Harvard penetrated early, setting up pretty combinations which all seemed to end with sliding Cameron saves. On the first power play, Reed stickhandled through the B.C. defense, and fed to Palmer, who rifled a low bullet which Cameron managed to defect by Sue Yunick waiting for the rebound...
...most barbaric acts yet. In broad daylight, as the six men who led the country's left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists burst in, brazenly seized them, dragged them off and executed them. Hours later, their bullet-ridden bodies were found outside the city. The most prominent among them: millionaire Rancher Enrique Alvarez Cordova, a rightist turned leftist who headed the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), a coalition of 48 leftist groups...
...scurrying to anxious meetings, acting out the rearranging-of-the-deck-chairs scene from The Titanic. Cimino must have wished he were in Airport-any airport. After all, his previous film, The Deer Hunter, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This time out, he could only bite the bullet and petition his patrons "to temporarily withdraw [Heaven's Gate] from distribution to allow me to present to the public a finished film with the same care and thoughtfulness with which we began it." Within 24 hours, from his arrival in New York with the unseen film...