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...tormented Briton seeks help
...Poet Czeslaw Milosz, 69, now a U.S. citizen, and the medicine prize to three immunologists, Jean Dausset, 63 (France), George Snell, 76 (U.S.), and Baruj Benacerraf, 59 (U.S.). Last week Americans took five awards: two for physics, two for chemistry, one for economics. The other two went to a Briton and an Argentine...
...more ominous turn: it singled out oil, the mainstay of both countries' economies. Iranian naval vessels shelled oil terminals at Fao island, and the Phantoms returned to bomb and rocket Basra's vast new petrochemical complex. Twenty-nine people were killed in that raid, some of them Britons, Americans and other foreign workers among a labor force of thousands. The foreigners and their families fled in cars and buses to the Kuwait border 15 miles away. "It all happened so fast," said Briton Roger Elliott. "I was just sitting there getting my truck started when I looked...
...third round began with Minter's eyes a bloody mess. Once again the Briton tried to toe-to-toe it, and once again Hagler prevailed. A leaping right hook, sort of a reverse Joe Frazier job, hurt Minter. After a few more Hagler flurries, the referee brought Minter to his corner, where his seconds recognized the obvious and had the fight stopped. To the Minter partisans, however, it appeared that the referee had stopped the fight on his own, and that he had done so unfairly. While Hagler celebrated his victory by dropping to his knees a la Bjorn Borg...
...heavy business of the Olympics, track and field, did not get under way until late in the week. Most eagerly awaited was the showdown between England's exciting runners, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, in the 800 meters. Another Briton, Allan Wells, 28, beat them to the gold with a victory in the 100-meter dash; Wells needed a closing rush to edge out Cuba's Silvio Leonard in the relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon...