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...even as the PCjr's detractors were dancing on its grave, IBM was plotting its rescue. The company's first step was to help beleaguered dealers by allowing them to delay payment until the end of August for computers ordered in January, six months longer than normal. Then, on the last day of July, IBM quietly introduced a flurry of new PCjr features and options, including a typewriter-style keyboard that was retroactively provided free to every registered owner...
Muslims were also buried in groups. Rescue workers dug graves six feet long and 15 feet wide, each holding eleven bodies. When there was no burial ground left, old tombs were opened and 100-year-old bones were displaced to make room for the victims. Even here the packs of dogs roamed about; if they found a grave that was not deep enough, they would haul out bodies and devour them. "I thought I had seen everything," said Subedar A.B. Bhosale, a soldier in the Indian army, "but this is worse than...
Although the two leaders agreed on the need for peace talks, they seemed to be at odds over the subject of the Camp David accords, which Hussein continues to oppose, even to the extent of declining to lay a wreath at Sadat's grave. Complained the King: "It eliminated the P.L.O. from the peace process...
That something turned out to be the earliest intact shipwreck ever recovered, a fully laden cargo vessel that had gone to its silent, watery grave perhaps 3,400 years ago, about the time King Tutankhamun was on the throne in Egypt. The discovery, announced in Washington last week by the National Geographic Society, which helped sponsor Bass's expedition, is located near the town of Kas, less than 100 yards off the jagged, arid southern Turkish coastline and more than 145 ft. below the surface. The excavation began in earnest last summer...
...week earlier, the Polish leader's efforts to thaw relations with the West had suffered a serious setback. West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had postponed a visit to Warsaw, largely because Polish officials told him it would be inappropriate to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union who was abducted and killed in October. The Jaruzelski government has been hurt by revelations that at least four secret-police officers were involved in the murder. The "Jablonna V" International Meeting of Journalists provided a timely opportunity for Jaruzelski...