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...appalling and he spoke out. Yet even in that tragic tangle there is the dilemma of courage. The White House does not believe that the Soviets deliberately intended to harm the ambassador. It was simply their brutish sense of how strong-and, yes, courageous-men respond in a crisis. Crush the offenders and all those...
...power and water supplies in the area for three days. The Save Uganda Movement, one of several guerrilla groups operating inside the country, claimed responsibility for the attack. The State Research Bureau, Amin's notorious secret police agency, has arrested hundreds of "suspects," but has failed to crush the guerrillas. With pride, the leader of one anti-Amin group declared in Nairobi: "Our office in Kampala was searched and four of our boys were taken away. But I know they died bravely, because the rest of our organization is still intact...
...They outskated us, they beat us to the puck--we didn't deserve to win it," Joe Bertagna, coach of the squad, said after the game. In yesterday's consolation, before Cindy Warren's four goals helped the Big Red crush Brown for its fourth consecutive title, the Crimson turned in a stronger effort that wasn't strong enough as Dartmouth hung on for a 3-2 victory to capture third place on the weekend...
...plan for a two-week vacation. They throw a big party the night before they leave, jump in the car, the wife has the map in her lap and there are three screaming kids in the back seat. The guy is going 70 m.p.h. and looking backwards." Trucker Phyllis Crush, who drives with her husband Ted, describes a recent run-in. "I was driving in the giddyap lane and some broad stopped dead at 65 m.p.h. She was starting to back up at an exit. I slam on my brakes and my trailer hits the guard rail...
...capital; they lined the 20-mile route out to Behesht-Zahra Cemetery, where many of the martyrs of the revolution are buried, to catch a glimpse of the Ayatullah. "The holy one has come!" they shouted triumphantly. "He is the light of our lives!" So heavy was the crush of people that Khomeini had to be lifted from his motorcade and flown the last mile to the cemetery by helicopter. There, in Lot 17, he prayed and delivered a 30-minute funeral oration for the dead. "Is it human rights," he asked in a bitter if oblique reference to President...