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...emergence of Smerczynski as the bullpen ace. The fireballer picked up his first win with a strong performance in the opener, whiffing Paul Kupcha in the seventh with probably the best fastball thrown all day. His one mistake, a change-up which number two hitter Steve Flacco pelted for a single, was erased when Vinnie Martelli gunned down Flacco as the Quaker tried to steal second...
...most worrisome aspect of the crisis was that the hostilities could touch off a wider Middle East conflict. Israel has thrown its support behind the Lebanese Christians in their conflict first with the Palestinians, more recently with the Syrians. Lebanese leftists and Palestine Liberation Organization leaders charge that Israel is behind a Christian plot to drive the Syrians out of the Bekaa Valley and link up with Major Haddad's Christian contingent in the South. For this reason, the Syrians positioned the bulk of their 22,000 troops in the Lebanon valley...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir David McNee held out the possibility that the riot had been politically inspired. Said he: "You don't find petrol bombs and the kind of missiles that have been thrown at my officers just by chance." Indeed one sign of Britain's growing racial tension has been clashes between blacks and neofascist white organizations like the thuggish National Front. Brixton's riot did not seem to follow that disturbing model, but instead traced another pattern, one that could be copied elsewhere. As a Brixton resident gloomily put it, "Next time it might...
...hard to argue with his rinky-dink soft stuff, however: Barber has now thrown 19 2/3 innings, allowing no runs and just ten hits. That's a class act that might go over even in Florida...
...their lives, for fear the school at their backs would grab them and eat them up one more time. It wasn't until he caught the downtown A that he saw what they had done with their childhood. They had wrapped it in dark cloth, sneaked it underground and thrown it all over the trains. Like blazing jewels, the subway cars burst from the tunnels to the platforms shining with the recognizable artifacts of childhood: fantasy, magic, ego, energy, humor and point. They had taken it all underground...