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Then came the showdown with the host team Maine jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the-first, and shortstop Fred Staples threw three Crimson runners out at the plate. But sophomore Jeff Musselman held Maine scoreless for five innings, and Harvard scraped together a run in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game...
...Three weeks ago, he sent two letters to Congress, promising to adhere to the commission's blueprint, including its recommendation that the U.S. proposal at the START talks in Geneva encourage a shift to smaller single-warhead missiles, which are considered less likely to provoke a hair-trigger showdown. Also included in the letters was a commitment to establish a permanent bipartisan advisory panel on arms control. The President further promised to incorporate into the START negotiations a congressional proposal: the so-called build-down, which would require that old warheads be destroyed as new ones are deployed...
...that Hooks has refused to release records that would, she says, document his administrative bungling. But, said Hailes, "I don't know of any materials requested that have not been turned over." Indeed, it looks now as though Wilson is the one in jeopardy. "If there is a showdown," predicted Board Member Hazel Dukes, "the vote would be 61 for Hooks to 3 for Wilson...
...police department chopper ace assigned to test what amounts to a flying gun platform. Once he discovers its illiberal potential, he must fight his way past Malcolm McDowell, an old neofascist enemy from his Viet Nam days now employed as a power-elite gunslinger. After that dogfight comes a showdown with a couple of Air Force jets...
...instead, it will be UMass (now 12-1-1) which will make its first ever trip to the Final Four next weekend at the University of Pennsylvania With Saturday's quarterfinal win, UMass will join Temple, Penn State and Maryland, the tourney's top three seeds, in the showdown for the national title...