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Stretching for 11 1/2 miles beneath central Italy's rugged Apennine mountains, it is one of Europe's longest railway tunnels and carries the nickname La Direttissima because it provides the most direct route between Florence and Bologna. Last week the Italian press renamed it the "Tunnel of Death...
...Robbed by fraudulent vote counting of what seemed like certain victory during his first presidential run in 1972, he was severely beaten by Salvadoran soldiers before exiling himself to Venezuela for seven years. His pug face, with its slightly sunken cheeks, still reflects the maulings that crushed the bones beneath his eyes...
...skillfully to a brocade couch. She had reached safe territory. Even though the pair was surrounded by some 200 other guests, no one would have dreamed of interrupting a sit-down tête-a-tête at a stand-up party. Conversations conducted in the zone beneath a hand-held cocktail glass are, after all, strictly private affairs...
...this Johnny Carson in alb and chasuble, who keeps the customers satisfied with ingratiating patter-dinner and a show for the price of your soul. Off-pulpit, Father Farley is a bit of a sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach him a few punch lines, figure out where God fits into all this...
Suddenly, Rehm saw that Conger, only 20 ft. away, was in trouble. Something was shaking him violently. A moment later, Conger disappeared beneath the surface, then re-emerged in the gaping mouth of a 12-ft. shark. Says Rehm: "I don't know whether I saw the blood first or the shark." The monstrous fish swam toward Rehm, spat out Conger and then vanished. Recalls Rehm: "Omar said, 'Help me.' " It was too late: by the time Rehm had floated him to shore on a raft, Conger was dead...