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...Bruins' 27-12 showdown win over the defending co-champion Elis (0-1) at Providence, R.I., may eventually determine the league champion...
Finally, there's that showdown at Brown between two undefeateds. The Bruins are a one-point favorite, which is a correct assessment of the talent of the two teams. Yale has a history of winning, and if the Eli don't beat Brown today, it is possible that nobody will. The game in Providence will be for blood...
Confrontations with B.U. teams do not always turn out the way Harvard fans might hope, but the hockey season hasn't started yet, so something positive (from a Crimson point of view) should come of today's showdown. Harvard has won seven of the eight grid contests between the two schools, the latest a 16-0 mugging two years...
...Assembly president is Luxembourg's Premier and Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn, 47, who is a deft negotiator-and compromiser. Thorn may be spared having to deal with some difficult issues. South Africa, for instance, will not immediately attempt to retake its seat in the Assembly, thus postponing a showdown between the Western nations, who insist that the U.N. should be open to all, and the Third World countries who voted to bar Pretoria's delegates during the Bouteflika era. For different reasons, Israel will also not be a seriously divisive issue. Syria will call for Israel...
...continuing Washington stalemate over energy policy resembles nothing quite so much as a soap opera: at the end of each episode, events swirl toward a grand denouement only to emerge in the next episode as tangled as ever, with nothing really resolved. Last week, after battling through their third showdown in two months over petroleum prices, the White House and Congress found themselves still caught in a deadlock that raises serious questions about how far and how fast oil prices will be allowed to rise, how the U.S. will reduce its dependence on foreign oil, if it does...