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...debut this evening. The 12-part series, produced by the BBC, features six American and British athletes who compete with each other in tribal games while immersing themselves in indigenous culture. The show will air on the Discovery Channel at 9 p.m. tonight. For Rennell, a certified diver, first ascent mountaineer, and endurance athlete, the show offered an opportunity to escape the rigor of school life and embrace a new physical challenge. “By junior year, I was kind of disenchanted with school and I was feeling pressure to rush through my whole life and achieve all these...
...dinners, Reagan thought he heard Kohl tell him that West Germany would not extradite Mohammed Ali Hamadei to the U.S. for trial. Hamadei, arrested in Frankfurt in January, is suspected of the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Aides later ascertained that Kohl had actually said no decision had been made and coupled that with an assurance that if Hamadei is tried and convicted in West Germany, he will get a stiff prison sentence. That was not the rebuff Reagan thought it was, but neither...
...guest wants a Cuban cigar, he doesn't need to know you've anticipated his request by at least a month to get it through local customs," says Palacoeur, who lists among his triumphs securing a submarine for an underwater wedding in which the groom was a diver but the bride was not. "That was the deepest kiss I ever saw!" 156 98730, Bora Bora, French Polynesia; tel. + 689 607 630; jerome.palacoeur@ interconti.pf
...country's best-known diver, Tian Liang, a two-time Olympic gold medalist on the 10-meter board and until last week the world champion, wasn't even in Australia. He has been at loggerheads with China's sports administrators ever since he returned in triumph from the Athens Olympic Games. Conspicuously absent from the roster of divers headed for Melbourne, he lost his place on the national team because of what control-obsessed sports bureaucrats called his excessive "commercial activities...
...provide evidence of Nasrallah's involvement in terrorism. Asgari was the primary Iranian contact for one of the world's most lethal and capable terrorists, 'Imad Fa'iz Mughniyah. Mughniyah is indicted in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a Navy diver...