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...store and a source of spirituality," the sales clerk says simply...
...next morning, the quiet ended. Several cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands...
...mustache. In his travels he had been known by many names, but he signed himself in as ``Ali Mohammad'' on Su Casa's pink registration form. Through his wanderings, he had a way of being unaccounted for, of vanishing into speculation. Last week in Islamabad, he told the desk clerk that he was visiting the Pakistani capital from Karachi, the huge port city in the south. He promptly put down a deposit of $31.50 for a room at the two-story boarding house, did not say how long he would be staying and declined a porter's offer to carry...
Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...
Galluccio, his mother and his sister were escorted into the council chamber in the 6 p.m. ceremony. He was sworn in by City Clerk D. Margaret Drury...