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...minutes later, senior Kathy Carroll shot the puck off what seemed to be everyone in the arena's stick to earn the second tally. Half a period later, after a Carroll face-off win, right wing Kelly Landry pumped the puck between the goalie's legs, Goal three...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Kimmell at Center Stage as Icewomen Rout B.C. | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...finishers in Tuesday's voting will face-off in the general elections on November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King Caucus | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

...determined to find out. The Justice Department believes the company carried out a "massive tax-fraud scheme" in 1980 by diverting some $20 million in profits from its subsidiary in New York City to its headquarters in Switzerland. The department's probe has resulted in a prolonged legal face-off with the firm. The latest crisis came last week, when Federal Judge Leonard Sand threatened to freeze up to $55 million in Marc Rich & Co. assets at some 20 domestic banks and companies, a move which would have paralyzed the company's U.S. operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elusive Target | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...greatest danger of de facto partition is that a prolonged Israeli-Syrian face-off in Lebanon will eventually deteriorate into all-out war. That is reason enough for the U.S. to send Special Envoy McFarlane to Syria this week to pursue a goal that both his predecessor Philip Habib and Secretary of State Shultz have failed to achieve: the mutual withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops. A rookie in Middle East affairs, McFarlane might want to ponder the wisdom of the sign that hangs in the office of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Lebanese town of Naqura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A House Divided | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...from the press until there was what Wallace calls a "free the slaves" movement at CBS. That gave Wallace a chance to speak for himself, and he was ready to. By that time, because either Carter was away on assignment or Wallace was, they never got together for a face-off on camera. Still, Carter had a lively broadcast, and the New York Times devoted nearly a column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Water-Torture Journalism | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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