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...Midway through the talks, the Soviets broke the news blackout with calculated leaks that a major deal was in the works. By doing so, they were putting pressure on the U.S. to make or break the deal. Either way Gorbachev could not lose. Some experts even say Gorbachev was counting on the talks collapsing over Reagan's insistence on Star Wars. "They banked on Reagan's theological commitment to SDI," says one Western diplomat in Moscow. "Now they are behaving as if to say to the Americans...
Harvard's first scoring opportunity came midway through the first half when freshman forward Andrea Montalbano drilled a free kick at the UMass net. The outstretched hands of the UMass netminder were enough to send the ball over the crossbar, and the score remained...
Neither team tallied in the first half of Saturday's contest, but Dartmouth broke the ice with a goal on a penalty corner midway through the second half of regulation...
Boston University jumped to a 1-0 lead over the visiting Harvard men's soccer team last night--but midway through the first half, technical difficulties forced the game to be halted. The lights at B.U.'s Nickerson Field shut off twice in the first 25 minutes, rendering play impossible...
...backers has dropped dramatically. Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able to get started now. Wall Street is casting too questioning an eye on new airlines." David Hinson, chairman of Chicago-based Midway Airlines, cites another barrier. Says he: "All the infrastructure, like airport gates, has been consumed by the big boys...