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...retired Manhattan appliance manufacturer, who was partly paralyzed by two strokes and confined to a wheelchair, had been killed and his body thrown overboard. Abbas and P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, among others, had publicly questioned whether Klinghoffer had actually been shot. The Syrian government of President Hafez Assad, a foe of Arafat's, quickly reported the discovery of the corpse, and an FBI agent flew to Damascus to help make an identification based on Klinghoffer's dental records. Later the body was flown to Rome, where it was confirmed that Klinghoffer had suffered gunshot wounds to both the head and chest...
...Green machine used to be the Jolly Green Giant of Ivy League football, a feared foe both in and out of Ancient Eight competition...
That's all if the established order holds. But like their namesakes, the 1985 Minutemen have demonstrated that they have the determination and guile to embarass their scarlet, er, Crimson foe...
...temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic foe...
While Puccio is being showered with public accolades, however, some of his legal colleagues in New York City have private reservations. Says one old Puccio foe: "There is no limit to which he wouldn't go to get an advantage." A former courtroom opponent who on the record calls Puccio "a very aggressive, very able lawyer," adds confidentially, "I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw a grand piano." Puccio, the former chief prosecutor of Abscam, knows he rubs many in the legal Establishment the wrong way. "I'm very noninstitutional," he acknowledges. "I'm uncontrollable...