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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher protested the mining in the strongest terms to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who was in London. Privately, her ministers explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S. foreign policy to a European public already highly uneasy about placement of American nuclear missiles in Britain and on the Continent. Said a British government minister: "Grenada, Lebanon and now Nicaragua, again. These gung-ho displays really do not help us in defending American behavior." Said Kirkpatrick, replying to allied...
...League's perennial doormats, bathmats and placemats, Cornell, couldn't pose a semblance of a challenge in yesterday's Soldiers Field showdown. And Harvard (8-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy) couldn't help but score its most goals of the year in an 18-5 Ivy League...
...missing much made her way in, Lili Pew, the Harvard women's lacrosse link who was elected captain of this year's squad but is currently on leave because of a knee injury she suffered in last year's Cornell game, is in town for today's showdown...
...Crimson, still revelling in the excitement of Saturday's 7-4 upset of the University of Massachusetts, will take a 6-1 mark into tomorrow's showdown with Brown...
...showdown that brought together New England's top two teams (Harvard was ranked second in preseason polls) saw the visiting Minutemen completely take advantage during the first half...