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...Neither Neal nor Tommy is what you would call power type runners," Restic said, "but they make up for their lack of size with their great quickness"--a quality Restic is sure to exploit with his multiflex offense...
...brutal efficiency, few terrorist organizations can match the Japanese extremists who call themselves the Red Army. In the past five years the Red Army has hijacked planes, attacked embassies and murdered dozens of innocent people in various parts of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Its most infamous exploit was the wanton slaughter of 26 tourists at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport in June 1972. Last week in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, five Red Army members stormed a 14-story downtown office building where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfire around the ninth...
...archetypal armchair detective, who had been portrayed on film by Actors Tony Randall, Albert Finney and others, had finally finished his long career. Old, infirm and wheelchair-ridden, he would meet his end in her next novel, Curtain -or Poirot's Last Case. Although Poirot's final exploit was originally written in 1940 and locked away until now, the business-wise author declined to reveal any details, preferring to keep them a mystery until Curtain's publication this fall...
...Crooks is the way it affects the Summer School, which, being like Crooks on the edge of things here, is less than sacred to financially pinched administrators. So Crooks is worried--worried that in pulling back to essentials Harvard will leave the Summer School behind, that it will "exploit" summer students for high fees, that the nature of the Summer School will change substantially. "The central concern of the Faculty," says Crooks, who has just learned that Summer School enrollment had dropped nearly one quarter from last year, "is to pull into itself. That leads to excessive tuition...
Died. Otto Skorzeny, 67, audacious Nazi SS colonel, saboteur and guerrilla fighter during World War II; of bronchial cancer; in Madrid. Skorzeny led the September 1943 glider-borne rescue of Benito Mussolini from the mountain-top hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed...