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Barnard's basketball team isn't taking advantage of one of its greatest natural resources, the training grounds of New York's inner-city hoop courts, and it showed last night, when the Crimson women drubbed the Lions 74-29 in front of a lively hometown crowd...
...past, Harvard has suffered because no Crimson jerseys have been in sight when a Harvard player has passed in front of the opposing goals. But last night things were different...
...violations and 158 deaths since the agreement took effect on Dec. 21. British officials say Nkomo's ZIPRA forces appear to be honoring the truce far more scrupulously than the more numerous ZANLA troops loyal to Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's co-leader in the now divided Patriotic Front alliance...
Soames has recently received a barrage of criticism from both Patriotic Front wings, as well as their allies in the frontline and Commonwealth states. Critics of the British viceroy accuse him of blatant bias for authorizing the Rhodesian security forces to track down and shoot guerrillas who "unlawfully" remain outside the cease-fire camps. Claiming that 17 of his men were killed by the Rhodesians last week while trying to get to a camp, Nkomo demanded that the 1,200-man Commonwealth observer force be reinforced by 5,000 or 10,000 additional troops...
Since no one appears strong enough to win an outright majority, some sort of coalition government seems inevitable. Muzorewa, whose party polled 67% of the vote last April (without Patriotic Front participation), should retain a substantial bloc. His party is by far the best organized, and he will surely benefit from the rift within the Patriotic Front. Some observers feel that Nkomo's recently adopted conciliatory tone suggests a pragmatic attempt to forge links with whites as well as other black factions, including members of the Bishop's own party. Mugabe, who has yet to return to Rhodesia...