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Harvard dominated the 1985 showdown, taking a 17-0 lead in the third quarter and holding on for a hard-fought 17-6 victory. The win, highlighted by Robert Santiago's 108 yards rushing and Connolly and White TD scampers, temporarily moved Harvard into a first-place tie with Penn in the Ivies...
Boston University (15-1-2), which edged Harvard, 2-1, last week, is assured of a spot in the national tourney as the region's top team. Number two Yale (9-1-1) comes to Cambridge November 22 for a key Ivy League showdown...
...military showdown, however, was overshadowed last week by a propaganda battle between Managua and Washington as both sides sought to score points off the Hasenfus trial. Nicaraguan officials, including President Daniel Ortega, have indicated that Hasenfus will be found guilty, then released as early as Thanksgiving. "It's a chance to show Americans how kindhearted they are," scoffed Antonio Tijerino, a Washington-based attorney for the contras. U.S. officials, meanwhile, branded the tribunal a kangaroo court. Since it was established in 1983, the court, perhaps unsurprisingly, has had a 99% conviction rate. Each panel consists of a lawyer who serves...
Harvard could sneak into a first-place tie if Penn loses to Princeton this Saturday and defeats Cornell in that showdown (assuming, still, that the Crimson bests the Quakers). Alternately, the Crimson could tie for the Ivy crown if Cornell loses its next two games and then defeats Penn...
...Presidents have excelled Ronald Reagan at winning showdown foreign policy votes on Capitol Hill. Through a combination of astute compromise and skillful personal lobbying, the President has managed to persuade reluctant legislators on such hotly contested matters as sending advanced AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia and aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But ) last week Reagan's fabled reserves of luck and persuasion finally ran out. Both houses of Congress voted decisively to override his veto of a bill calling for stiff economic sanctions against South Africa...