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McCarver was probably the only person in Tiger Stadium that day who knew this strange fact...
...Swatter: Harvard cornerback Frank Caprio batted down four passes against the Tigers. Two of these occurred in the endzone and could have led to two Tiger scores. Instead, Princeton had to settle for two field goals. Caprio's last swat happened on Princeton's final drive of the game. What a difference those broken-up passes made...
Meanwhile, 13 Tiger guerrillas, including three of Prabakaran's most trusted lieutenants, committed suicide by swallowing cyanide following their capture by the Sri Lankan navy two weeks ago. According to a Sri Lankan official, the deaths made Prabakaran "lose control" of himself. In a series of terrorist attacks, mainly in the east, the Tigers killed 170 civilians belonging to the country's Sinhalese majority. In addition, 27 Sri Lankan soldiers and policemen died at the hands of the rebels...
That bloody spree prompted the Indians, whose peacekeeping force had grown to more than 20,000, to launch their all-out drive against the Tigers. With Jayewardene's blessing, the Indians began moving against Tiger hideouts in the east, killing three rebels and arresting 98. Next Gandhi's forces began the much more difficult job of rooting the Tigers out of the Jaffna Peninsula, their main stronghold. After securing control of most of the peninsula, the Indians advanced on Jaffna town behind artillery and air strikes...
Many civilians were caught in the cross fire. With journalists barred from the town, the exact number of noncombatant deaths was impossible to determine. Tiger spokesmen charged that the Indians had killed more than 250 civilians. ; Indian diplomats did not deny that civilian casualties had taken place, but blamed them mostly on the rebels' tactic of using the local Tamil population as human "shields." In the eastern province, meanwhile, Tiger commandos murdered a total of 21 Sinhalese civilians in two separate attacks and killed 20 Indian soldiers in a land-mine explosion...