Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOTEBOOK: Sophomore defenseman Mitch Olson received a reprieve from the Ad Board and returned to action Saturday night...
...Harvard men's fencing team gave a new meaning to the Thanksgiving custom of carving the turkey by slicing up Army, 16-11, Saturday in the season opener...
...until last Saturday, after a week of retaliation and counterretaliation, that the first apparent break in the conflict came. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's de facto head of state, ordered the students to release the women and blacks, believed to number a dozen, who were being held hostage. "Islam grants to women a special status," explained Khomeini in announcing his decision, and blacks "have spent ages under American pressure and tyranny...
President Carter was awakened at 5:35 Saturday morning with the news from Tehran that Khomeini had called for the release of a few of the hostages. But then followed a delay. On Sunday night, the students summoned foreign newsmen to a press conference with the first three of the hostages scheduled to be freed...
Although the Northeast got most of Reagan's attention in the first week of official campaigning, he made a side trip to a rally in more congenial territory in Cicero, Ill., and spent Saturday in Florida, where a convention of state Republicans took a symbolic straw vote. As expected, Reagan won the poll, with 34.4% of the 1,326 ballots cast, while Connally, who had pressed hard for a squeaker by outspending the Californian $300,000 to $225,000, finished second, with 26.6%. A surprisingly strong third: George Bush, who collected 21.1% of the votes after spending a mere...