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...Shanta Perry is a lot smaller than even a bread box. Last week in Evanston, Ill., little Norie became the newest addition to the family of Sherry and William ("the Refrigerator") Perry. Born eight weeks prematurely, she weighed in at a delicate 3 lbs. 10 1/2 oz., a tiny fraction of her famous father's 300-plus lbs. She will be the third lady in the Perry household, joining Mom and her three-year-old big sister Latavia. "Now I'm outnumbered three to one," quipped the Chicago Bears defensive tackle, who celebrated by pass ing around chocolate cigars. Though...
Certain less-than-scrupulous American firms have provided the South African government with the equipment necessary to sustain apartheid. We have already divested from these companies, and rightfully so. Yet while American businesses employ only a small fraction of South Africa's nonwhite work force, many have brought about significant changes in the lives of South Africa's nonwhites and have aided the movement for change. General Motors and Kellogg, in defiance of government policy, were the first companies to recognize the Black trade union movement that now constitutes one of the strongest forces for progress. Those American firms which...
Though born a Filipino, Malabed is now an American citizen living in San Francisco and therefore could have contributed to U.S. political coffers without arousing suspicion. According to the documents, the source of Mabuhay's beneficence was Philippine military intelligence. On paper, only a fraction of the corporation's funds went into U.S. campaign coffers. Most of the money bankrolled travel for the Marcos family. In 1981, for example, Imelda Marcos spent $800,000 on "official" visits to Iraq, Kenya, Mexico and the U.S.--all at the expense of the military. Noted Congressman Solarz: "Imelda used the Philippine intelligence budget...
...Cadets won the women's division with 105 points, 12 ahead of second-place (and Ivy winner) Penn. Princeton's men escaped with both the Heps and the Ivy titles--but barely, nosing out Cornell by a fraction...
...J.P.L. experts interpret the tape as showing a bright sphere of flame appearing well above one of the boosters' lower skirts. It is on the interior side, facing the external tank and pointing away from the orbiter. A fraction of a second later, the sphere of flame becomes a cone-shaped jet of fire. The pointed end of the cone emerges from the booster, and its rounded end seems to aim at the fuel tank, apparently burning a hole in its side. The next thing to be seen is the huge fireball, engulfing everything...