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...Another harrier on the ball Saturday was Kathy Good, who bettered her second-place finish in a tough 3000-meter race, when she outran all competition in the subsequent 500-meter contest in a rapid...
...landing craft surged into the shallows off the white sandy beaches, carrying hundreds of U.S. Marines in tropical camouflage gear, Harrier jump jets streaked overhead. A six-ship task force was anchored two miles out to sea, while clattering Cobra helicopter gunships provided cover. After landing, the troops pressed forward through swampy terrain. In about two hours they had seized their first objective, an airport twelve miles inland...
...narrow loss to Dartmouth two weeks ago in Boston but couldn't keep pace with the Midshipmen. After Junior Andy Gerkin's second-place finish, completing the five-mile course in 24:38.5 (7.4 seconds behind Dartmouth's Jim Sapienza), there was a long wait for the next Harvard harrier...
...Columbia harrier Kurt Lundgren, however, had other ideas. Lundgren tossed a three-hitter in the opener, with a Don Allard solo shot in the fifth producing Harvard's only run. By then the Lions had already left the Crimson far behind, blasting their way to four first-inning runs. Two more tallies in the fifth and three scored in the seventh completed the runaway...
...British attack. Large numbers of the mines will never be found, remaining as silent and deadly reminders of the irrevocable change that the war has brought to the islands. There are 4300 soldiers garrisoned on what has come to be known as "Fortress Falklands," and the troops, the Harrier jets, and Rapier anti-aircraft missiles are eloquent witness to the British determination to hold on to what they won at such terrible cost...