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Part of our account of the safe rescue of the passengers and crew members being held hostage aboard Lufthansa's hijacked Flight 181 at Mogadishu, the Somali capital, came from an unexpected source: Israel. Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy obtained from an Israeli short-wave radio enthusiast a tape recording of fragments of the communications he had monitored. They were between Flight 181, two other planes carrying the West German negotiator and anti-terrorist commandos, Lufthansa headquarters and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's crisis group, which was directing the operation...
Pele's mission was also the soccer enthusiast's dream: having soccer spread across the U.S. [Sept. 12]. Now millions of people are into soccer, and it is evident by the record crowds that soccer is here to stay...
Another sports enthusiast, Sandy L. Assaro '81, said, "I'm getting in shape for the Bonne Bell Mini-Marathon on Monday. And I'm going to a Woody Allen Festival tomorrow night, and after the marathon I'm going to a cook-out. And if I have some time, I'm going to catch up on my Hum 9a reading...
...different match. The former Secretary of State and his son David, 16, a prep-school student in New England, were in the record crowd of 77,691 watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele and introduced him to a delighted David. Was Kissinger a Cosmos rooter? Said he: "If you know...
Robert Whiting's book orients the baseball enthusiast in a different manner. Some 20 years after Admiral Perry revealed Japan to the world, an American university professor taught some of his students how to play baseball. Since then, the nation has been hooked. Each year, some 12 million fans jam its stadiums to eat an American import called the hotto dogu and scream "ganbare" (Let's go) as Japan's twelve professional teams battle each other with the ferocity of a samurai...