Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifty Somali poachers armed with automatic weapons came nosing around the rhino refuge at Lewa Downs. "But we put out the message that if they came in, a few of them would have to die along with us," says Anna Merz. Under the driver's seat in her car, she carries a spike-headed club. She is not licensed to carry a gun, but she employs guards with old Enfield rifles to patrol her fenced-in 7,500-acre refuge, where approximately 16 rhinos live...
...times bloodshed seemed to be war-torn Lebanon's only certainty. A powerful car bomb killed 15 people and injured 80 in a suburb of Muslim West Beirut as the week began. The moderate Shi'ite Amal militia blamed the blast on the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was driven out of Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion, and is now trying to make a comeback. Battles raged throughout the week between Amal militiamen and Palestinian fighters. In Beirut a relentless Amal blockade of Palestinian camps forced thousands of starving residents to adopt extreme measures to feed themselves...
...faith. In his current straits, however, religious belief has apparently become more important to the swashbuckling Marine -- and more visible than ever. At the parking lot of Marine headquarters in Arlington, Va., North's gray station wagon is easily spotted. Alongside similar autos sporting SEMPER FI decals, North's car displays only one bumper sticker, the popular prolife slogan, GOD IS PROLIF...
...area, the long-term impact of the Phillips cuts was not as damaging as it might have been. Still, most business leaders in town say their customers are more cautious spenders now. Observes David Oakley, president of Oakley Pontiac-Buick: "People are starting to hang on to cars a little longer. My new-car sales are off, but service...
...onetime Chilean army captain last week confessed to taking part in a murder, but he also suggested that Chilean President Augusto Pinochet may have been involved. On Sept. 21, 1976, former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier, a Pinochet foe, was killed in Washington when a bomb exploded under his car...