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...Paula Sims said her 13-day-old daughter Loralei had been abducted from her Brighton, Ill., home by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying a gray revolver. Police who later found Loralei's body in a wood near the house were suspicious, but could find no evidence to disprove the story. But when Paula, now living in Alton, Ill., told police there last April 29 that her second daughter, six-week-old Heather, had also been kidnaped by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Two Times, Too Much | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...lives," says Levon Ter-Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader Khachik Stamboltsyan abandoned a 21-day-old hunger strike to exploit Gorbachev's democratization campaign and run for the regional parliament against the republic's sitting minister of the interior. He polled nearly three times as many votes as his opponents, but was disqualified on a technicality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armenia | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...dash to Store 24. Between the day-old donuts and empty coffee cups, you find a box of rabbit's feet...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No More Black Cats Allowed | 10/26/1988 | See Source »

...poem recommends making mulligan stew by putting "Whatever you've got/ In the pot/ Heat it 'til it's hot/ Eat it." Williams improves on the formula. He keeps a store of spice packets from fast- food stands and collects money from hoboes who have some to buy day-old meat and vegetables. His stew takes two hours, but a grateful hobo once told him, "I ain't had such a meal since I was on my mother's breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoboes From High-Rent Districts | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

GDANSK, Poland--Riot squads stormed a strikebound steel mill in southern Poland yesterday and crushed a 10-day-old strike, and thousands of police surrounded a Gdansk shipyard in a tense standoff with defiant strikers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Police Break Up Steel Mill Strike | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

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