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Parts of one woman's body were found in the freezer, and pieces of bone were located elsewhere in the kitchen. In the dungeon-like basement, furnished only with a portable toilet and two mattresses, three half-naked women clung to life. Two of them were chained to sewer pipes; the third was imprisoned in a shallow open pit covered with plywood weighted down by bags of dirt. Said Chief Inspector James Gallagher of the Philadelphia police department: "It was ghastly...
Reagan accepted the commission's finding that his Iran initiative "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages trade. But he stubbornly clung to the notion that his dealings with the Iranians were intended as a diplomatic overture: "My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not." Reagan attributed the deterioration of the initiative to his deep compassion. "I let my personal concern for the hostages spill over into the geopolitical strategy of + reaching out to Iran," he explained. "I asked so many questions about the hostages' welfare...
...turn out to be an important first step. To be sure, Reagan took it well past the eleventh hour. He had been under pressure from old friends, Republican allies and his wife to fire Donald Regan as chief of staff ever since the Iran-contra affair broke. Still, Reagan clung to his abrasive, autocratic chief of staff until after the Tower report came out. By comparison with the unsparing criticism directed at almost everyone else, Regan actually got off rather lightly: the commission found no evidence that he had played any significant part in planning or carrying out the Iran...
Although 190-lb. Kelly Flynn did not come away with a victory, he provided some excitement in a match which pitted two highly-touted sophomores. Flynn, battling a former two-time New England High School Champion, clung to a 4-3 lead in the third period, before giving up a two point takedown with :03 remaining in the match...
Entering the final period at Ingalls rink, Harvard--the nation's number-one ranked team and the owner of a 15-0 record entering the contest--clung to a 2-1 lead over the Bulldogs...