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...about 50 photographers and reporters. Asked whether she made breakfasts fit for a King, Diana replied: "I don't eat breakfast." When presented with a bouquet of white heather, roses and carnations, she smiled graciously, then cocked her head and inquired: "All on your expense accounts?" The Balmoral bout yielded thousands of pictures, but that was not the kind of prints charming Diana had in mind, and so the session may be the last for a while. Said Charles: "A very happy Christmas...
...many ironies of Argentina is that Timerman was among the majority of citizens who welcomed that military coup in 1976. In the years before and after the 1973 return to power of former Dictator Perón, Argentina suffered the worst bout of terrorism on the continent. Thousands of left-wing Perónist disciples, known as Montoneros, allied with Trotskyite guerrillas to terrorize and murder at will. Among their victims: onetime Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, General Juan Carlos Sánchez, commander of the Argentine army Second Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people...
...happen after the fight. The New York Times reports that there will be three Leonard-Hearns fights. The Boston Globe promises that after he beats Hearns, Leonard will give middleweight champ Marvin Hagler a well-deserved payday. The New York Post claims that Leonard will retire after the September bout--win, lose or draw...
...Hearns jabs in each of the first three rounds, and his face was swollen as he began the fourth. Midway through the stanza, Hearns followed his jab with a straight right which made Baez's head snap like a speed bag. About 20 punches later, the referee stopped the bout...
...life sounds hard, Forss describes it with the abstract air of a man in love with his work. Besides, his knockabout past has immunized him to mere annoyances. Born in the South Bronx, Forss endured a bout of polio at age three, and the loss of his carpenter father, who took to thievery, using a hand-carved wooden pistol, and was deported back to Sweden after a fling at bank robbery. His Italian mother remarried, and George moved through a series of orphanages and boys' homes. "Let's face it," he says, "we were a welfare family...