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...fedayeen rebel is Sabry Khalil Bana, 40, whose code name Abu Nidal means Father of the Struggle; he heads a dissident Palestinian group known as Black June, after the month in 1976 when Syrian forces invaded Lebanon and fought the Palestinians. Abu Nidal, whose terrorist credentials include a 1973 attack on a Pan Am jet at Rome's Fiumicino Airport in which 34 people died, is under a P.L.O. death sentence for disobeying orders. Last week's series of attacks suggested that the P.L.O. intends to wipe out Abu Nidal and strike back at the Iraqi regime that...
...unique burdens on the Pope, the anointed spiritual leader of 683 million Roman Catholics, the world's largest body of Christians. Few of the 261 successors to St. Peter worked at that responsibility more tirelessly than Giovanni Battista Montini, Pope Paul VI. Sunday night, after suffering a heart attack while hearing Mass in bed at Castel Gandolfo, Paul, 80, died, laying down the burden...
Seizing on a story with, so to speak, grass-roots appeal, some metropolitan newspapers and broadcasters devoted more space and time to the cleanup issue last week, than they did to the terrorist attack at the Iraqi embassy in Paris or anything going on in Congress. The New York Post banner headlined a front-page story, CITY DOG OWNERS DOING THEIR DUTY. The Daily News ran daily features on "poopetrators," concluding in one headline, ON THE FIRST DOG DAY MORNING, CRIME IS DROPPING. The New York Times editorialized that it was "one of those delicate moments of social experiment when...
DIED. Totie Fields, 48, talk-show comedian who staged a comeback to the nightclub circuit following the amputation of her left leg in 1976; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas. She used to joke about her 4-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. figure: "Obese, hefty, overweight, rotund. I never knew there were so many ways to say fatty...
DIED. Frank Fontaine, 56, comedian known as "Crazy Guggenham"; of a heart attack; in Spokane, Wash. A zany second banana to Jackie Gleason on TV during the '60s. Fontaine had just completed a benefit show and accepted a check for $25,000, which he planned to donate for heart research, when he collapsed...