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By Friday he was back in Leimen, the small West German town (pop. 17,000) where he is the biggest thing to happen since they opened the cement factory. The good burghers turned out 8,000 strong for a motorcade. There was a cannon salute and a trumpet fanfare, and...
FREED. BOBBY FISCHER, 62, chess legend; from eight months of detention in Japan on an alleged passport violation; after being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the...
FREED. BOBBY FISCHER, 62, vitriolic chess legend; after being detained for eight months in Japan for an alleged passport violation; upon being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions...
police say is a top Thai militant leader as part of a crackdown aimed at preventing rebels from slipping over the porous border between the two countries. Thailand has in the past complained that the rebels use Malaysia as a refuge. "We were safe when Malaysia was seen as a...
Sachs accidentally inserted himself into history. A star at Harvard--he was a tenured professor at 28--he found himself in 1985 at a seminar about Bolivia, which at the time was being battered by hyperinflation. I can fix that, he blurted. The Bolivians accepted the offer. Sachs neglected to...