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...winning four of the first five rounds by jabbing Sugar Ray Leonard to death, Tommy Hearns has taken a terrific beating in the sixth and seventh stanzas. The bell rings, bringing an end to Leonard's assault. Tommy Hearns turns and starts towards his corner. But the Motor City Cobra looks more like a newborn gazelle as he wobbles to his stool. Depression...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Hearns: A Hero Fallen | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

...project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors. The rat-infested buildings are ravaged: graffiti-scarred stairwells, bashed-in doors, broken elevators, roaches everywhere. And the streets and hallways are ruled by marauding youth gangs that police say number 100 in all. Squads of Cobra Stones live at Cabrini-Green, and they are in an almost constant state of war with the resident members of the Black Gangster Disciples. Most of the shootings stem from gang struggles over control of drug sales, prostitution and extortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago's Cabrini-Green: 2 Brs, Inexp, W Vu of Roaches | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Genghis Khan in the 13th century A.D., Afghanistan in the Victorian era served as a buffer between Imperial Russia and the British raj. The Afghans accepted it all, but they exacted a bloody price. For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How the Soviet Army Crushed Afghanistan | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...very young would do well to try a simpler volume, Ancient Egyptian Design Coloring Book (Dover; $1.50) by Ed Sibbett Jr. The motifs of cobra-goddesses, scarabs and animal deities are outlined with precision, and hints about traditional hues (red skin for men, yellow for women) can make anyone who owns a box of crayons into a high-chair archaeologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...toward bringing about a cease-fire in the Western Sahara between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario guerrillas, who want to establish an independent state in the area formerly ruled by Spain. Morocco's King Hassan II is pressing the U.S. to sell him the Bronco planes and Cobra helicopter gunships he feels he needs to continue the fight against the guerrillas. The U.S. State Department opposes the sale and cites a CIA assessment that Morocco cannot win the war against the Polisarios. The State Department also fears that the arms sale would merely provoke the Polisarios into seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Sahara Dilemma | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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