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Bill heads arrangements for the National Plowing Match in Convoy, Ohio, this August. And his son Gary, 31, twice a national champion, will compete. If history repeats itself, Gary will bring home another trophy to put with the collection already in the Goettemoeller farm home. More important than the trophy to Gary is the fellowship of other skilled plowmen and the feel of turning the earth with precision and beauty. Gary's special joy lies in the patterns of cultivation, the symmetry of plowed fields and ruler-straight furrows carved meticulously beside one another. "I have in my mind what...
...have beans," says Vladimir Pozek, a software analyst in Sarajevo. "On odd days, macaroni." Little relief is in sight. Both the UNHCR and the Red Cross suspended operations in Bosnia two weeks ago after workers were repeatedly threatened and a Red Cross official was killed while leading a convoy of goods...
...lucky in one respect: they have their husbands with them. It is far more common for the men and boys to stay behind to protect their homes and fight. Aida Catovic, 32, left Sarajevo on May 18 with her two small children. They escaped just in time: the next convoy out was detained by Serbian gunmen, who took 5,000 people hostage for three days. After taking the grueling bus ride to Split in Croatia, Catovic flew to Zagreb. Now living with distant relatives of her in-laws, she waits anxiously for the daily call from her husband in Sarajevo...
...Tuesday a convoy of 150 activists from South Central arrived to picket the courthouse where the four policemen were tried. "Why do you bother us?" Simi Valley housewife Suzanne Heffernan shouted back at the protesters. "Let us go on with our lives, like you are down there...
...fighting a man-of-war at sea were maturing and broadening experiences of educational value. Within three years of graduation I was called to active duty, almost six months before Pearl Harbor. Late that summer six of us from that NROTC class were aboard ships in the same convoy dodging Hitler's U-boats in the North Atlantic. Our Navy and our country needed us, and we were well enough trained to serve competently for the four years it took to win the war. I spent nearly four years at sea participating in six major engagements and campaigns...