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Mention Bears these days, and many Britons hardly give a thought to Paddington or Winnie-the-Pooh. The biggest bears of all, they know, come from Chicago. Ever since an N.F.L. game of the week started showing up on the country's TV screens four years ago, the "other" game of football throws fewer and fewer people for a loss. A monthly magazine called Touchdown counts 160,000 readers, and one Briton in every ten saw the Bears in this year's Super Bowl. It's not cricket, of course, but football seems certain to gain even more ground this...
Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE...
...umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq policy in the gulf war and for the recent expulsion from France of two opponents of the Baghdad government, who were sent back to Iraq and possibly executed. At week's end the report of Seurat...
...latest shoeless wonder is Briton Zola Budd, who sprints along, setting records wearing nothing but her bare peds...
...seven days of testimony, during which five witnesses were called, the Nicaraguan legal team, which also includes a Briton, a Frenchman, a Nicaraguan attorney and Managua's Ambassador to the Netherlands, attempted to prove that the contras were a creation of the U.S. and would wither away without Washington's funding. In an affidavit, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro claimed that the rebels were practicing terrorism against civilian populations as a conscious policy. He alleged that the political and military activities of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force, which he left last year, "were directed and controlled by the CIA." Chamorro...