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...sensitive listening devices for locating the terrorists within the plane and 2) a supply of British "stun grenades," which explode without scattering metal fragments, but can immobilize an enemy for about six seconds with their sound and flash. The stun grenades-along with two experts from Britain's crack Special Air Service regiment-were soon en route to Dubai...
...Glos manifesto is bound to embarrass and anger the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek. Still, it seemed unlikely that the government would crack down on the signers so close to President Carter's scheduled visit to Warsaw in December. In Poland, such a move would only precipitate more protest...
Despite their new-found aggressiveness, Harvard could not crack Dartmouth's defense. The Crimson garnered their only points with two penalty kicks...
...Biko controversy has been a sickening mixture of callous indifference, duplicitous disclosures to the press, and continued delay in releasing Biko's autopsy report. Now in response to these latest disturbing reports, the government has issued a formal complaint against The Mail, and thus tacitly threatened a future crack-down on all newspapers critical of its increasingly unconscionable policies...
...course, the best thing about this weekend is that the people from Hanover are taking the whole thing very seriously. The editors of the "Dartmouth" are sending two crack reporters to Cambridge to get an idea of what Harvard is like before the Crimson and Big Green clash. I've already written their first few paragraphs...