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Lowell's defense stood firm, though, so Magaud--playing his first year of football--came in to boot a 25-yd. field goal, boosting the score...
...military training center in La Union is basically a boot camp. Every 15 weeks about 250 recruits are transformed into troops, which President Jose ( Napoleon Duarte's government needs in its struggle against leftist guerrillas. Last week the trainees received a lesson in warfare when some 350 rebels, armed with mortars and rockets, staged an early-morning attack on the base. The young soldiers fought off the insurgents, but the two-hour battle exacted a bloody price: 42 of the trainees were killed and 62 were wounded. There were ten known rebel casualties...
...weeks ago, Garrett drove punter Pete Murphy out of the Lion football program for averaging 38.5 yards a punt against the Crimson. His replacement, John Williamson, managed only 34.4 yards a boot last week...
...when he passed along documents and photographs he was able to obtain with his "secret" security clearance. Michael, who helped out at his father's detective agencies before joining the Navy, has been involved in the family spy business at least since 1983, after he had finished boot camp and was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. When Michael mentioned to his father that he had seen some classified material, say prosecutors, the elder Walker replied that there was money to be made if he could deliver it. Says FBI Spokesman Bill Baker...
...comparison does not really work; he has neither Waugh's masterly style nor his free-floating malice. Also, when Waugh wrote his comic gems in the '20s and '30s, it was still possible to have a truly innocent hero, like Paul Pennyfeather in Decline and Fall or William Boot in Scoop. A dark half-century later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost his job and his women, and his life hangs on his ability to outrun a real attacker. So much, says...