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Tickled to Death (Scribners; 231 pages; $13.95) is a collection of short stories, only one of them featuring Author Simon Brett's delightful amateur detective, the hammy and frequently out-of-work actor Charles Paris. Brett's ten Paris novels thrive on their bitchy wit and backstage authenticity. Outside those...
As a citizen of Italy, I apologize for the behavior of my government. It has betrayed the simplest and most necessary principles of human living: justice and loyalty. Italy should have asked that Egypt immediately hand Terrorist Abul Abbas and his criminal gang over to us. Our government's readiness...
In front of some 50 journalists gathered in the new bunker-like Soviet compound atop Mount Alto in northwest Washington, Yurchenko vehemently insisted that he had never defected. Occasionally smirking, often scowling, always looking tough and in command, he freely alternated between Russian and English as he spun his tale...
Other disturbing questions were raised by Dr. Ali Z. Hameli, chief medical examiner of the state of Delaware and the forensic expert who identified the six-year-old remains of Nazi Josef Mengele last summer in Brazil. Retained by Goode's commission, Hameli found what appeared to be buckshot fragments...
As the avalanche poured down on Armero, it gained additional ferocity from several sources. Three days of torrential rains had greatly swollen the Lagunilla River, which was already choked with mudslides from the volcano's tentative stirrings in September. At that time geologists from the surrounding federal department of Tolima...