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...crack troupe of Army's best men stalled a late, Harvard comeback at West Point Saturday, taking the final two bouts to clinch a 15-12 victory and hand the Crimson fencing team its first loss of the season...
...President is also in trouble with his promise to crack down on wasteful and costly federal regulation of business. The council that Carter appointed to do the job is stacked with regulators and headed by Douglas Costle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Says a high Administration official: "As long as the regulators are regulating themselves, what can you expect? What would happen on the price side if you got the 50 biggest firms together and told them to run the price program...
DEFENSE. China's military force is hardly a match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry...
...took another three-goal deficit in the second period to force the Crimson into its first and only crack at dominance in the contest. Harvard's all-around tentative play early in the period set up some strong Dartmouth pressure and the Green's fourth goal at 9:21 of the second...
...quick and dramatic relief from Japanese imports." In trade, says Eckstein, the Japanese "have done nothing for us." The Japanese, for their part, argue vehemently that they have done much to open up their market and that it is now the fault of American exporters if they cannot crack it. Who is right...