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When golfer Lee Trevino was leading this year's Masters tournament, he proclaimed to a press assembly, "If a man had walked up to me and bet I couldn't break 76, I wouldn't have taken a quarter of the bet. And I'm a gambling man." As the New York Yankees began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from...
...army insists it will punish Jews who break the law. But Palestinians say soldiers often stand by idly when settlers attack Arabs. Rafik, 31, who won't disclose his full name for fear of retaliation, recalls an attack on his home in the village of Halhul two weeks ago. Just as the family was finishing breakfast, five heavily armed men stepped from a car with Israeli license plates and unleashed a barrage of insults and indiscriminate gunfire. "It was an expression of raw hatred," says Rafik, pointing to broken windows and mirrors and a dozen bullet holes in the wall...
Whatever reservations Moscow may have about the Polish election, the possibility of Soviet intervention seems extremely remote. Eight years ago, in the heyday of Solidarity's first incarnation, Leonid Brezhnev forced Jaruzelski to break the union. But Gorbachev has long since laid the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine to rest, repeatedly promising the East * European regimes "mutual respect" and "non-interference in each other's internal affairs." Moreover, Gorbachev considers the reform-minded Jaruzelski an important ally in promoting what he calls "new thinking" throughout the Soviet bloc. Finally, the Soviet leader seems to regard the economic and political experiments in Poland...
Should the U.S. turn its back on the martyred students who rallied around a sculpture resembling the Statue of Liberty? Or break its ties with the Chinese government and risk a devastating setback to both strategic and commercial interests? Neither, said the President, who is something of an old China hand, having headed the U.S. mission to Beijing in 1974-75. Bush tried, as he put it, "to find a proper, prudent balance" -- to toe-dance between the horns of the dilemma...
...watercraft industry to expand its safety campaign. Industry spokesmen maintain that the machines are safe but that they are too often used irresponsibly. "Many people who are buying personal watercraft are buying their first boat," says Catherine Martin, spokeswoman for the International Jet Ski Boating Association. "They'll break some of the laws that other boaters are aware of without even knowing that they're alienating anybody...