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...happen to know that the frantic investigations ordered by the Pakistani high command have failed to turn up anything on the background of the enemy agent. Perhaps this was opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's way of proving that she's got all of Pakistan behind her. Or could it be that some Indian militarists hired a dissident on a freelance basis? We'll never really know who put the animal up to it; impervious to General Zia's customary interrogations by torture, the boar is keeping...
Meet Thomas Wolfe, racist. A short story portrays a Black regiment in the Civil War: `"Cavorting with glee, their black faces split by enormous ivory grins,' they gathered around their white officer 'like frantic children,' patting his shoulders `with their great black paws...
...penetrated the earth, leaving their trail in huge liquid- filled neutrino detectors. Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, of the University of Texas in Austin, summarized the activity while addressing a hastily convened meeting of astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center the week after the discovery, "These are frantic times...
...first couple of hours of the frantic rescue effort, officials held out hope that passengers might still be alive in air pockets inside the vessel. But doctors pointed out that potentially deadly hypothermia sets in soon after submersion in icy water, and by the time the rescue operation was suspended early Saturday morning, no real hope remained for those who had not been found...
...frantic negotiations between the government and rebel troops wore into a third day, attention shifted to Hawaii. There, at Honolulu International Airport, a private 707 jet was discovered parked on a runway, waiting to fly Marcos home from his Hawaiian exile. A few days earlier Wife Imelda had been spotted in a Waikiki military-surplus store buying $2,000 worth of combat gear. Moreover, a videotape had been seized in Manila that showed the deposed Marcos lifting dumbbells, shadowboxing and praying to return home. The cumulative impact hit like a bombshell. The Aquino government quickly alerted American officials, who bluntly...