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...heavies will showdown with Yale next weekend on the Charles, but since the Bulldogs edged out Dartmouth last week, the Black and White face an uphill battle...
Virtually every night since then, small groups of guerrillas have stolen across the waters to prepare for a showdown battle with the Sri Lankan army. Last week the war all but broke out. First the rebels, who represent the island's 2.6 million mostly Hindu Tamils in a separatist struggle against 11 million mainly Buddhist Sinhalese, killed three civilians whom they suspected of being government informers. Then they planted a bomb that ripped apart sections of a train in the capital, Colombo. Finally, hundreds of the so- called Tamil Tigers cut off electricity in the northern city of Jaffna, blasted...
...long imagined that a showdown in Central America might begin that way, and Washington was assembling a fleet of 39 warships for counteraction on the other side of the isthmus. On D day next Tuesday, 2,000 Marines will storm ashore from amphibious assault craft onto an isolated strip of sand near Puerto Castilla, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. They will secure a beachhead for troops of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, who will be flown in by helicopter the following day. By the end of next week, about 10,000 American troops will have gone into action...
Harvard and Yale--on target for a championship showdown--will meet later this month on Soldiers Field...
...pursuing a more cautious strategy. Sovern could have undermined the ill-conceived protest, limiting Columbia's public relations losses Apparently, only an ambiguous court ruling now forestalls the protesters' eagerly-awaited showdown and certain disaster. Those who oppose the barricade can only hope that Sovern's patience exceeds that of the activists...