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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consummate gentleman, Reston, 77, has survived the shark-infested waters of Washington with virtually no enemies and scores of admirers. Though criticized in recent years for losing his bite, he makes no apologies. "After more than 50 years," he wrote, "I remain an up-to-date, stick-in-the-mud optimist." Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger says Reston will not be replaced on the op-ed page. He will contribute some columns and concentrate on his memoirs, which he says will be a "long love letter to America...
...most bizarre episode to date, the pilot of a small airplane who was spotting fish some 30 miles off the coast of Newport Beach reported that a rival fish-spotting pilot, just yards away, had drawn a gun on him, though no shots were fired. It was not the only example of the violence reaching into new territory. Highway officials in Arizona, Washington, Utah and Northern California reported armed confrontations last week, with one woman wounded near San Francisco...
...establish the Prophet's true succession was the supreme sacrifice for the faith. Martyrdom thus offers Shi'ites a chance to imitate their sainted hero. In Iran, which is more than 90% Shi'ite, passion plays depicting Hussein's last hours are performed regularly. Each year, on the date of Hussein's death, thousands of penitents march through Iranian streets whipping themselves with chains and branches, seeking purification through suffering...
...spent 18 months at a POW camp in Chelm, Poland, as he now insists, Demjanjuk said he forgot. When told that the Vlasov army had not been formed until months after he says he joined it, Demjanjuk pleaded, "Even here in Israel I do not know what month or date...
...Ivan from the gas chambers," exclaimed Eliahu Rosenberg at a February court session. "I saw those eyes, those murderous eyes." Moreover, the prosecution has paraded a corps of experts to the witness stand to authenticate Demjanjuk's signature on the card and attest that the paper and ink date from World...