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...temperature hovered around the zero degree range, Harvard played the game at its preferred up-beat tempo, especially in the second half, and set up a national semifinals showdown with Duke tomorrow afternoon...
...winner of tonight's showdown gains the inside track for the 1986-'87 Ivy League title. Either Harvard or Brown has won the Ivies every year since...
With tonight's showdown coming only two weeks after the start of the swimming season, the contest may be a baptism-by-fire for the freshmen on both teams...
There were other issues that could also have led to a showdown in North Korea. Over the past two years Kim has engineered a pronounced tilt in Pyongyang's Sino-Soviet policies toward Moscow. Just two months ago the North Korean President made a hastily arranged visit to the Soviet capital, his second in 29 months, for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviets provide North Korea with MiG-23 fighter aircraft and Scud surface-to-surface missiles. In return, they have acquired calling rights at the North Korean ports of Nampo and Najin and clearance for military reconnaissance flights from...
Miami, 10-0, and hoping for a victory that would put it in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2 for a national championship showdown with Penn State, got all but four first-place votes yesterday in The Associated Press poll...