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...Harvard women's field hockey team thoroughly dominated Northeastern in almost every aspect of their showdown yesterday at Soldiers Field. The Crimson stickwomen consistently controlled the ball, stifled the NU offensive attack, and outshot the Huskies by a 3-1 margin...
...last week many U.A.W. members were bristling for a showdown. Said Jim Zsigo, 37, a machine operator in the Chevrolet component plant at Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland: "We can't have them taking all the jobs to Mexico, and we can't have all our jobs replaced by robots. I can't really afford a strike, but I've been saving. I'm good for about eight weeks." Rick Herman, 39, a dyemaker in the Parma plant, was psychologically ready to walk out. Said he: "I'm looking forward to a strike...
...late, Shea--who has a conservative legislative record--has been getting into trouble during his showdown with Atkins. Over the summer, Shea has uncharacteristically backed liberal positions on the nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, cuts in military spending, foreign policy in Latin America, and ways to reduce the federal deficit, the plans for the latter released last week in a 40-page statement released last week. He has shut up about the causes he pushed hardest for as a legislator: amending the Massachusetts constitution to outlaw abortion, killing gay rights legislation and supporting the death penalty...
With familiar chants of "Solidarnosc!"the crowd joined Walesa in defiantly flashing the V sign and singing the patriotic hymn God Who Watches Over Poland, as hundreds of grim-faced policemen looked on. But Walesa was seeking no showdown. After leaving his bouquet at the base of the monument to workers killed during antigovernment riots in 1970, he quietly thanked his supporters for coming and drove away...
...Budapest Grand Prix had been billed as a showdown between East and West, since a number of Americans and other non-Communist athletes were scheduled to appear. In the end, all the best-known Westerners except U.S. Supersprinter Carl Lewis decided to withdraw. Lewis, moody behind dark glasses, made little headway with the international press corps, but he had no trouble winning the 100 meters with a time of 10.05, .06 slower than his Olympic mark. Eight other winners at Budapest, all of them from boycotting countries, posted records better than those of Los Angeles...