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Several other examples of global unilateralism look, in retrospect, like dress rehearsals for this latest, most spectacular and most controversial military clash in the Reagan era. In 1981 the U.S. Navy made quick work of Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra, and late last month the U.S. bloodied those waters again. There were also the 1983 invasion of Grenada and last year's interception of an Egyptian airliner with the Achille Lauro hijackers aboard...
Some of the vigilantes are reportedly off-duty black policemen, and many blacks suspect that these groups are working with government security forces. The critics say that police, who regularly clash with leftist protesters, seldom appear when right-wing vigilantes are on the prowl and are slow to investigate charges against the groups. "There are right-wing elements of our community ready to be used by the authorities to blunt the edge of liberation forces," says Murphy Morobe, chief spokesman for the United Democratic Front, the national umbrella organization for more than 600 antiapartheid groups. "These vigilantes are no different...
...sport where any race before the Eastern Sprints in mid-May is considered early in the season, it may be an exaggeration to call this morning's varsity heavyweight contest on the Charles between Harvard, Penn, and Navy the Clash of the Titans...
...Hormel & Co., one of the nation's largest meat- packers. Although operations resumed in January with nonunion workers and the strike seemed increasingly futile, some 350 demonstrators last week tried to block access to the plant. When more than 100 police tried to clear the way for workers, the clash erupted, with officers propelling tear gas and demonstrators spraying Mace. Eight policemen required treatment for eye and head injuries, and 17 protesters, 11 from outside Minnesota, were arrested...
...Even a clash with Gaddafi's Soviet allies, though it seems highly unlikely, cannot be ruled out. Soviet technicians prudently managed to be elsewhere when American missiles hit antiaircraft radars three weeks ago, but there is a possibility that some might be killed in a new strike. The Soviets, however, appeared to be as perplexed as everyone else about what might happen and what, if anything, they ought to do. "There have been no guarantees concerning action or nonaction on the part of the Soviet Union," said Valery Sukhin, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, at week's end. Georgi Arbatov...