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...order to beat Harvard, Army knew it had to contain Harvard forwards Lane MacDonald, Bourbeau and Tim Barakett. And--to a degree--the Cadets accomplished their mission. Before the brawl, Bourbeau and MacDonald were held to goal apiece, and Keenan matched those tallies with two goals...
When thousands of demonstrators set out in Manila last week to march on Malacanang Palace, the office of President Corazon Aquino, the police took standard precautions. To contain the roisterous crowd, which chanted demands for immediate land reform, 500 riot policemen equipped with truncheons and metal shields lined up in eight-deep rows at the foot of the Mendiola Bridge, the main approach to the palace. Two water cannons and eight fire trucks pulled up as well, and a contingent of Philippine marines, on temporary security duty at Malacanang, deployed behind the police phalanx...
...controls on so-called dual-use technologies, meaning commercial products that could have defense applications. High on the Pentagon's list are computers, ranging from Cray supercomputers, which could play a role in the Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, to certain kinds of automated banking machines, which contain information-processing chips that could be useful for Soviet missile- guidance systems...
Kansas City's civic leaders could hardly contain their excitement. They escorted their unsuspecting guests to the Bartle Hall convention complex, which had most recently been host to the National Water Well Association, paused, then dramatically parted a thin blue curtain. Behind it, a Democratic Convention was in boisterous progress...
...first he kept an uncharacteristically low profile, quietly seething over / the press and congressional reaction to Iranscam. But eventually and probably inevitably, Patrick Buchanan, the White House's bombastic director of communications, could contain himself no longer. Having served Nixon during the dark days of Watergate, he feels he knows how best to handle the current scandal. "These crises have a certain rhythm," says the old pro. "First it's a news story, then a policy controversy, then an investigation -- and then it turns into a political war. When it goes political, you've got to go into it full...