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...star, made the team at the unlikely age of twelve. But in 1977 she fell in a downhill run and was unconscious for a month. After relearning how to talk, walk and write, Sheila could possibly have skied on, but her taste for it was gone. "Mom's dis appointed that I'm not enthusiastic about racing any more," Sheila said a few years later. "She doesn't quite understand." A half brother, Steve, 30, turned to daredevil speed skiing (he once held the world's record of 124 m.p.h.) after an advertising transaction disqualified...
Syria's relations with most other Arab s countries range from mutual dis| trust to outright hatred. Saudi y Arabia and the rest of the Persian I Gulf oil states give Damascus ğmore than $1 billion a year in cash, partly because they deem it essential to have at least one strong Arab state confronting Israel. But the payment also serves as a form of protection money to ensure that Assad does not try to overthrow those conservative regimes. Kuwait, with its large population of Syrian guest workers, feels especially vulnerable. "Assad is a very bright...
...lead. Less than two minutes later, Peter Chiarelli fired in a slapshot on a Bob Starbuck faceoff to make it 3-1. It looked like a three-goal lead when Falcone crashed into Marshall and the puck trickled over the goal line at 1205. But referee Pierre Belanger dis-allowed the goal because of a high stick...
...ties with President Reagan, who will make a three-day visit to Japan this week. But at home, the Liberal Democratic statesman has seemed uncertain about how to handle the scandal sur rounding his longtime political ally, for mer Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. As pressure mounted on Nakasone to dis tance himself from the man who has come to be known as the Shadow Shogun, the troubled Japanese leader slipped away to the temple to contemplate one of the most difficult problems of his political career...
...over the country is to wait for Marine casualties to mount and the U.S. to pull out. "The Syrians are dragging their feet," Reagan said at his midweek press conference. "If they're doing it with the idea of wearing me down, they're going to be dis appointed." He had idea, of course, just how much U.S. patience would be tested in the days...