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...Agca returned to Rome, checking in at the Pensione Isa, a colorless boardinghouse that is about a 15-min. walk from St. Peter's Square. It was there that police searched Room 31 and found Agca's Perugian student card, his false passport, an extra cartridge clip for the Browning and the letter in Turkish boasting of the Pope's death. In the familiar tones of 1979, it denounced "Russian and American imperialism" and made John Paul the scapegoat for both...
...retirees. In addition, payments were hiked by cost of living increases. With a negligible inflation rate and a high ratio of taxpaying workers to beneficiaries, the system hummed along smoothly and solvently for decades. In the 1970s, however, prices (which determine the level of payments) rose at a faster clip than wages (which determine how much money is paid into the system). As a result, Social Security funds were depleted at a much faster rate than ever anticipated...
Replacing Pearce at third is junior Danny Skaff. In part-time action last season, Skaff hit a .368 clip, and his bat was equally hot down south last week. It is unfair to compare him to Pearce as a fielder, but although his range may be a problem, he is surehanded, throws well and plays heads-up ball. Again, consistency from him is important...
Eastern Air Lines, working with a Miami-based company called In-Flight Communications, has begun an advertising program that makes no such claim. Eastern on many flights has shown one-minute ads for Lanier dictating equipment and the familiar Hertz television film clip of O.J. Simpson flying like Superman through the air toward his rent...
Dixon's time was only half a second slower than his lifetime best but two weekends ago he ran the 1500 meters at the IC4As at a four-minute clip. In that race, Dixon beat Saturday's third-place finisher Louis Ostolozaga...