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...contain delightful hyperbole, the essence of pro sports. In a discussion of the Seattle Seahawks chances Pro Quarterback writes, "Every now and then in sports a complete unknown comes out of nowhere to explode on the public awareness with quantum force. In baseball in recent years, it's been Fernando Valenzuela, the sensational lefthander who pitched the Dodgers to a World Title in his rookie year. In hockey, it's 21-year-old Wayne Gretzky, who is re-writing the NHL scoring record book for the Edmonton Oilers. In pro football, the Scattle Scahawks have then fingers crossed. They...
...Rios Montt has been widely accused by human rights monitoring groups of continuing the campaign of murder and repression against leftist opponents begun by his predecessor. General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia Amnesty International, for example, says the number of murders carried out by rightist death squads since Rios Montt took over tops...
...Catholic University of Louvain, and was exposed to European leftist politics through books that were banned in his own country. His reading included news about the struggles of the Spanish Communist Party and the expulsion in 1964 of two prominent members, Writer Jorge Semprun and Marxist Economic Theorist Fernando Claudin, for breaches of party discipline. González realized his freedom-loving mind could never fit into so narrow a mold. Says he: "Claudin and Semprun are responsible for my being a Socialist today, not a Communist." González joined the party's youth wing, the Young Socialists...
...tricky part of any drug deal: the exchange. Hetrick said the cocaine was secreted in a car. Arrington, Hetrick's gofer, drove the C.I. and Scotti to the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley. Arrington parked the car and went off to get the drug-loaded auto. He soon arrived in a Chevrolet Caprice. He reached under the dashboard, flipped a switch?and the back of the rear seat flipped forward. "Go ahead, take a look," Arrington told Scotti. The agent found a number of large brown packages wrapped in masking tape. He pierced one with...
Wicker Park Elementary School. The money has been used to set up highly popular courses in cooking, darkroom techniques and computer science. The Los Angeles Dodgers have adopted the Solano Avenue Elementary School near the stadium, sending in such stars as Second Baseman Steve Sax and Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela to talk about developing good habits. Says Dodger Coach Mark Cresse: "You know how kids are. Their parents can tell them 100 times that they should study, and it goes in one ear and out the other. If a Dodger tells them, believe me, they listen...