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From Champ to Chump Buster Douglas sucker-punched the boxing world by knocking out heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in Tokyo last February. But success went to his stomach -- he became more interested in the banquet table than the boxing ring. Eight months later in Las Vegas, in his only title defense, the 246-lb. Douglas lasted less than three rounds against a leaner and hungrier Evander Holyfield...
...narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including a ban on cancer-causing pesticides, a phase-out of chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and creation of an oil-spill cleanup fund...
...Governor of North Dakota came under fire from disapproving legislators who discovered a radar detector -- legal in North Dakota -- in his truck. Sinner explained that the fuzz buster was a gift from his children. Said he: "It's sort of a sacred, emotional thing...
...managers for a conspiracy that involved falsifying repair records and failing to maintain its aircraft. The 60 counts are the first criminal charges for poor maintenance ever leveled against an airline. They cover a period from 1985 to October 1989, six months before Shugrue took command from union-buster Frank Lorenzo, head of Eastern's parent, Continental Airlines Holdings. The indictment is a major blow to the trustee's struggle to revitalize the airline, which has been losing more than $1 million a day since a machinists' strike began last year...
...handed. Deputy Attorney General Ayer resigned when Thornburgh refused to turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...