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...running events began, one of the meet's three highlights stirred excitement and hope in the Harvard crowd. Harvard's Kathleen Good and Grace deFries took immediate command of the 1500-meter, leaving the rest of the field behind...
...February 1983, Burt had been confirmed in his new position as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and he took command as the principal State Department official overseeing the Geneva talks. That meant waging a two-front battle: against Nitze's advocacy of greater concessions and Perle's championing of the zero option. It also meant accommodating pressure that was building up from across the Atlantic...
...attention to the interagency wrangling, but he worked hard on the packaging of the final position. He pored over numerous drafts for a speech, including one that he revised while returning to Washington from Texas aboard the specially adapted Boeing 747 that was equipped to serve as his airborne command center during a nuclear...
...Wednesday, Captain Ahmed Jebril of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small radical P.L.O. group with close ties to Libya and Syria, held a press conference in Baddawi, soon after the camp's capture by the anti-Arafat forces. Declared Jebril: "We stand today in Arafat's headquarters and command post. We have seen how he ran. Arafat is finished, and he has no alternative but to turn himself in to the revolution inside the P.L.O. so he may receive the punishment he deserves...
...French Super Etendard fighter-bombers from the aircraft carrier Clemenceau staged a 35-minute attack on the same region of the Bekaa Valley, leveling barracks and training bases of the Shi'ite extremists. Among the targets was the ancient city of Baalbek's Khawwam Hotel, the command headquarters of the estimated 1,000 Iranian Islamic revolutionary guards who have been operating in the Bekaa Valley for the past 18 months (see box). The next step could be a retaliatory strike by the U.S., though officials in Washington were undecided about whether the U.S. had more to gain...