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Dates: during 1990-1990
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While Kovacs was clearly the standout against Army in West Point, N.Y., Harvard as a team put in its strongest showing of the season, taking every event from the Cadets. Sean Gouldson barely missed an NCAA qualifying time himself in the 200-meter backstroke, falling 0.1 seconds short of the required mark. And senior Co-Captain Greg Tull set a school record in the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.55 seconds...
Although the voting surely was such a milestone, it appeared that Germans felt they had had, at least for a while, enough of history on a grand scale. Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 60, and his coalition partners took a 19-point lead into the election, seemingly assuring them of victory over Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine. The anticipated margin was large enough to leave Christian Democrats fretting that it might be eroded by a low voter turnout. Said a civil servant in the Rhineland: "It's certainly no Schicksalswahl ((election of destiny...
...strategy succeeds, the Iraqi troops in Kuwait would be isolated, their supply lines so thoroughly broken that they could get no food, fuel, ammunition or equipment beyond what they had stockpiled before the war began, or any reinforcements. This point could be critical. The 450,000 troops the Pentagon estimates to be in and around Kuwait are at least a match in numbers for the American, British, French and Arab forces confronting them, but they are far from Saddam's best. The dictator's elite troops, 105,000 well-paid, well-trained Republican Guards, are being held in reserve, some...
Many Afrikaners are rethinking the very meaning of Blood River. "It has been seen as the victory of Christianity over savage Africans," says Max du Preez, editor of the influential Afrikaans weekly Vrye Weekblad. "Now it is seen rather as the point where Afrikaners became accepted as an African tribe and determined that they had a right to the soil." The survival of the nation will depend on whether Afrikaners fully accept that their black fellow countrymen share an equal right to the land of South Africa...
...nuclear Cassandras point out that Saddam possesses enough fissionable material to build a bomb: 27 lbs. of highly enriched U-235 taken from the Osirak plant's salvaged core, as well as about 20 lbs. of less pure fuel obtained earlier from the Soviets. That uranium could be used for an implosion bomb, similar to the one the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki...