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Hagler's next defense will be in the spring, probably against former champion Vito Antuofermo. After that, a multi-million dollar showdown with either Sugar Ray Leonard or Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns is almost certain...
...better than Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "We are not talking about teachers," he said after yet another acrimonious political showdown. "We are talking about the survival of the government." So indeed was everyone else in Israel last week, as Begin's tattered coalition hinged its fate on the outcome of a crucial Cabinet meeting that might well bring down his government...
...night before New Year's Eve, Georgia Head Coach Vince Dooley decided to enforce an early curfew on himself. Weary from the whirl of practices, press conferences and official functions surrounding the Sugar Bowl showdown between his No. 1-ranked Bulldogs and Notre Dame, Dooley passed up a party honoring the teams and went to bed at 9 p.m. It was perhaps his wisest coaching decision of the year. "If I'd gone to the party, I would never have slept again," he asserted. The reason: while Dooley snoozed, Sugar Bowl officials staged a disco contest between Notre...
...choices were more sharply drawn than ever. Poland last week stood poised between what Warsaw Journalist Stefan Bratkowski called "a revolution of good sense," and a perilous showdown with its Soviet master. Everyone in Poland, after months of denying the obvious, finally acknowledged that Soviet intervention was a real possibility. Indeed, both the government and Solidarity, the federation of Poland's new independent unions, issued calls for moderation. But at the same time, the workers continued to test Moscow's patience with provocative moves. Solidarity brazenly announced the establishment of a special commission to defend jailed dissidents-just...
...antagonists were headed for a showdown this week as 3,101 delegates cast secret paper ballots for one or the other at the party's three-day convention in Tel Aviv's huge modern Mann Auditorium. Whoever wins will have a good chance of becoming Prime Minister at the next election, due in the fall of 1981 if not sooner. The loser could be relegated to years of political eclipse...