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...crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile or more and numbered some 600 cars. There was nothing illegal about what had happened. En route back to Ann Arbor, however, Lipski and Long were arrested for going too slowly in a 45 m.p.h. minimum speed zone. The charge: reckless driving...
Sheila Redden, 37, stops off in Paris en route to a second honeymoon on the French Riviera. But Kevin, her husband of 16 years, is not with her. He is having trouble getting away from both his medical practice in Belfast and the provincial conviction that a foreign holiday is a waste of good Irish scenery. As any novel reader could tell him, he is not only courting cuckoldry but demanding it. Sheila, of course, falls in love with a handsome American, eleven years her junior, and goes off on a binge of sexual ecstasy well beyond the range...
...Tall One," or "the Mustachioed One." In South America, such aliases as El Aleman (the German), Cara de Culebra (Snake Face) and El Carnicero (the Butcher) are common. One particularly brutal torturer at Chile's Tejas Verdes camp near San Antonio used to tell prisoners his name was Pata en la Raja, meaning Kick...
...Christians are well armed with supplies pouring into the port of Jounieh, north of Beirut-including U.S. M-16 rifles from Israel, which has also intercepted arms shipments destined for the Moslems en route to the southern Lebanese port of Tyre. Regaining the offensive, the Christians set about carving out an enclave stretching from East Beirut north to Tripoli between the Mediterranean and the Lebanon Mountains. By last week the only remaining Moslems in important numbers in the 800-sq.-mi. area were Palestinians in refugee camps. The Christians have leveled some of their heaviest firepower on the camps. Three...
...Canada that it threatened the ultimate sanction, canceling the entire Olympics. The issue: Taiwan's right to fly a flag with the word "China" on it. Canada, which has diplomatic relations with Peking, refused to let the Taiwan team into the country, and the athletes who were en route had to seek refuge...