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After a short return, the Big Green took command at the Harvard 46. A handoff up the middle was stooped by Harvard Captain Kevin Dulsky and his mates. Rorke took to the air on second-and-11, finding Anderson on the right for a seven-yard reception. Rorke bobbled the ensuing snap and Harvard lineman Rich Mau jumped on the ball, giving Harvard possession on the 38 with eight minutes left in the quarter...
...investigated the bombing to identify the perpetrators. They concluded that Adolfo Calero and the C.I.A. ordered the bombing to assassinate Pastora. For at the press conference, Pastora was about to denounce the F.D.N., Calero's Somocista comrades, and his C.I.A. controllers, and publicly refuse to submit to their unified command...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. Contending that it is far better to prevent minelaying than to hunt for explosives after they are planted, Crowe overrode interservice rivalries and dispatched a specially equipped and trained Army unit to join the gulf fleet. Three weeks ago he visited Rear Admiral Harold Bernsen, commander of the Middle East Force on the command ship U.S.S. La Salle off Bahrain. The two officers worked on the plans to track and catch Iranian vessels capable of laying mines. Crowe gave Bernsen freedom to move swiftly once the trap was sprung. "The critical decision was his," Crowe told...
Most notable among the changes was the official cashiering of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan from his command of special operations at a provincial fort. Honasan, the leader of the failed revolt, remained at large with as many as 2,000 renegade troops. According to press reports, Honasan has been secretly slipping in and out of Manila under the protection of military guards. Members of the business community may now be funding him, and some observers predicted he would launch a new coup attempt within a few weeks. If so, he could win support among government troops and officers, a majority...
Overall, women constitute roughly 10% of the 2.1 million active-duty members of the armed forces. Women serve on about 50 Navy ships and at most U.S. bases abroad. The captain accused in the report of offering to sell women crew members commanded the noncombat vessel Safeguard, which had 18 women among its six officers and 84 enlisted men. A Navy spokesman claimed that the captain's "distasteful" offer was meant as a joke, but his superiors did not consider it funny. They relieved him of his command and filed other sexual- harassment charges against...