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...Cuomo is being considered for the presidency at all is phenomenal. Until age 46, he had never held elective office. The lawyer from Queens, N.Y., lost his first two bids for election. After his defeat in a race for New York City mayor in 1977, he was considered politically dead. No one gave him a chance when he declared for Governor in 1982. His victory three years ago was the first election he had ever won without running on someone else's coattails. His three years in office have been relatively uneventful. Yet now, even as he carefully denies...
...working as a security guard in the federal court in San Diego when the phone rang on his birthday, Dec. 13, 1984. His wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told him as he went out the door the next morning for his re-enlistment physical. Kennedy and a select group of other noncommissioned officers with years of skill and leadership were chosen by the Navy to help bring the Missouri and her sister battleships, the Iowa...
...turbulence, however, the outlawed movement has stepped up its activities, both subversive and diplomatic. Last year it decided to extend guerrilla operations to South African civilian areas, including white suburbs. Its first such strike, a bomb set off in a shopping center near Durban last December, left five people dead. The new strategy coincided with the creation of a broader- based leadership, as the previously all-black national executive committee expanded its membership to 30 when, for the first time ever, it elected a white, two Indians and two mixed-race coloreds. In recent months the movement's leaders...
...funeral that the government had declared illegal. All told, the number of South Africans killed in disturbances over the past 20 months, almost all of them black, is approaching 1,600. Late in the week, government troops clashed with guerrilla forces in South African-ruled Namibia, leaving 56 insurgents dead...
...least 42 species of seabirds are known to snack on plastic. Of 50 albatrosses found ill or dead on the Midway Islands, 45 had eaten some form of the substance. In several, the plastic had either obstructed the digestive tract or caused ulcers. Says James Coe, program manager for the Marine Entanglement Research Program at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle: "We have found everything from toy soldiers to pens, fishing bobbers and poker chips in the birds' stomachs." A study of wedge-tailed shearwaters, which breed on central Pacific islands, showed that 60% of the adults surveyed...