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Last week Patrick returned to Boulder to mourn his parents. The night before, Terrence, 66, and Babe, 63, were shot dead in what appears to have been a robbery attempt at the bar. Two janitors from nearby Helena, both 19, have been charged with the homicides. In Los Angeles, production of Dallas was shut down briefly as a gesture of respect for the Duffys...
Appleton's leading citizens are the sort of folks one expects to bump into at a bridge party, a church service, a Rotary Club meeting. They are not the kind of people likely to show up for, say, a seance. Yet, on Oct. 31, the night souls of the dead are said to roam the earth, that is just where a visitor found the chairman of Lawrence University's psychology department, the president of a local construction company, the CEO of a large paper company, the executive director of the county's Outagamie Museum, the city's director of planning...
While all accounts agreed that Kim was dead, explanations of how he met his demise varied wildly. In some versions, Kim was shot by mutinous army officers, who then fled to China. Others said the North Korean leader had been killed in a coup staged aboard a train, which happens to be Kim's favorite form of transportation. Most claimed that power had passed to Kim's son, Kim Jong Il, who indeed is his father's designated heir. One loudspeaker announcement and some other versions of the story had it that aging North Korean Defense Minister...
...leader Kim Il Sung flows in the river as a leaf." A statement announcing his death by shooting followed shortly. Monday's broadcasts eulogized Kim extensively. Then, on Tuesday, came the startling admonition, "Do not be deceived by groundless rumors that our leader Kim Il Sung is dead...
...announced at his news conference that there would be no more arms deliveries, he expressed a rather wan hope that the U.S. could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with the "Black House" were "Satan-oriented," and cried, "May God get rid of the insurgents in this country...