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There was balding, middle-aged Thomas Mainotti, who first told Salem police he didn't know anything about a missing young woman last seen boarding his boat. Then he changed his story, admitting they had sailed together, claiming that she had fallen overboard and drowned. Then he disappeared. Days later, a lobster fisherman found the woman on the ocean floor with weights tied around her waist. After a massive manhunt, Mainotti was arrested while breaking into a Maine house five miles short of the Canadian border. He denies involvement in the killing...
There was balding, middle-aged Thomas Mainotti, who first told Salem police he didn't know anything about a missing young woman last seen boarding his boat. Then he changed his story, admitting they had sailed together, claiming that she had fallen overboard and drowned. Then he disappeared. Days later, a lobster fisherman found the woman on the ocean floor with weights tied around her waist. After a massive manhunt, Mainotti was arrested while breaking into a Maine house five miles short of the Canadian border. He denies involvement in the killing...
...early August, Red Sox pennant fever had almost died. The Sox had fallen into fourth, 11 games behind the Blue Jays in the American League Least. WBCN held a mock on-the-air funeral for the home team. But the Sox being the Sox--and the Blue Jays being the Blow Jays--things soon got interesting...
...with the collapse of the coup in Moscow and the subsequent rout of the Communist Party by reformers bearing the twin banners of democracy and Mother Russia. If it had been a hot war, some soldier might have rushed into an American general's tent, crying, "Sir, Moscow has fallen!" As it was, there was just the quiet realization that the world had changed utterly and that where East-West relations are concerned, the past was no longer prologue...
...comrade's room reeks of the past. Above the desk hangs a portrait of Lenin, a treasured gift from Leonid Brezhnev. On another wall is a tapestry of Karl Marx, a present from fallen East German leader Erich Honecker. Elsewhere sit a replica of Lenin's telephone; a wood sculpture from Fidel Castro; and busts of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Gus Hall, aging chairman of the Communist Party U.S.A., calls his New York City office a "museum of history." But among all these historic mementos, Hall is, unwittingly, the prime exhibit...