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...seen speeding away from a large farming estate outside Salisbury. Only minutes before, Gerald William Adams, 68, a white farm manager, had been gunned down in a daring afternoon raid, while calling for help on his emergency radio. After his arrest, Tekere was held in Chikurubi Prison for a fortnight and released on $75,000 bail. Maximum possible sentence if convicted at his trial: death by hanging...
...none of his students knew that their teacher reserved his pleasures for holidays on the Continent. In Venice, he conducted a passionate eight-year affair with a gondolier. A note in a book found after his death includes an astonishing list of male prostitutes whom he enjoyed on a fortnight's jaunt to France...
...jackal still wails in Tripura, but a hundred villages are silent. Ever since native tribesmen sacked scores of Bengali immigrant settlements in the northeastern Indian state a fortnight ago, the stench of dead bodies has filled the air. In the worst massacre, in the village of Mandai, the tribals first demanded money, then corralled the Bengalis in the village market. The horrified settlers were forced to watch while tribesmen armed with guns, spears and heavy scythes called daos put the torch to dwellings and butchered their occupants. "There was blood everywhere," says Haradhem Seal, 20, a Bengali barber whose entire...
...those years Centre Court, with its pampered lawn, its banked grandstand packed with royal patrons and regally sportsmanlike fans, has belonged to Borg as it has to no one else. The sight of him, Wimbledon Cup held aloft in vic tory, has become as much a part of the Fortnight, as the British call the pre mier tournament of tennis, as members taking tea in their rose-covered enclosure, or the hundreds of fans patiently queuing for strawberries and cream beneath green-roofed marquees...
Last week, scarcely a fortnight after that celebration, Backe found himself tossed off the team, summarily fired by Paley in yet another one of the management upheavals that have practically be come traditional at CBS. It was not the first time that Paley had used his power as the largest single CBS stockholder (6%, now worth about $70 million) to spin the revolving door on a potential successor to the helm of the firm he effectively created 52 years ago. In October 1976, also without warning and also at a time of triumph, Paley sacked Backe's predecessor, Arthur...