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...city's largest and most modern bridge. Another blasted its way into a stadium and tried to hijack ten armored personnel carriers parked there. The third group, armed with automatic weapons and rockets, filtered into a residential section near the stadium and entered the French embassy compound. By the time the attackers were repulsed, 83 Communists had been killed and seven captured; 26 Cambodians were dead and 58 wounded...
...compound the problem, night end John Haggerty came up with a charley horse this week, and it is questionable whether he will play. Haggerty is the Crimson's leading receiver as well as being a strong inside blocker. Haggerty's original backup Howard Keenan has already been lost for the year with a shoulder separation, so Harvard is dangerously thin at the position...
...even an expert to make. In some of those intercepted and analyzed, the explosive was a powder, probably TNT; in others the charges were two thin strips of plastique explosive scarcely five inches long. Developed in World War II, plastique is a mixture of Hexogen, TNT and rubber compound that can be molded into any shape and is safe and stable until detonated. It can even be rolled sheet-thin to look like typewriter paper, written on, rolled or folded...
...group of young men wearing sporty clothes and carrying athletic equipment scale the 6 2/7-ft. fence surrounding the village. It was a fairly common occurrence; many of the Olympic athletes had broken training to enjoy a night on the town, and then scaled the fence to re-enter the compound. But once out of sight, the Arab group stopped to blacken their faces with charcoal or put on hoods, and pull weapons out of their bags. Then they set off toward the Israeli quarters at 31 Connollystrasse, named, in an Olympic tradition, after U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly...
...administration building 220 yards from 31 Connollystrasse. Police Chief Manfred Schreiber called up 600 men, along with armored cars, to cordon off the area. Meanwhile an ambulance crew had already been summoned to retrieve the body of Moshe Weinberg, which had been dragged onto the steps of the Israeli compound and left there by two Arabs...