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...threat is to the Persian Gulf oilfields, which supply 40% of the free world's imported petroleum. When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan raised fears of a move by the U.S.S.R. toward the gulf, Carter announced plans to create a force that could quickly be dispatched to trouble spots halfway around the globe...
...matches he had no chance of losing. In his semifinal match against Australia's Rod Frawley, he picked up another penalty point, screaming, "I always get robbed because of the umpires in this place." That proved too much for Lady Diana Spencer, who left the royal box halfway through the long and argument-marred match. The display cost him an additional $10,000 fine...
DIED. Terry Fox, 22, who became a Canadian national hero by running halfway across the country on an artificial leg in 1980, eventually raising more than $20 million for cancer research; of cancer; in Vancouver, B.C. An outstanding soccer and basketball player before he lost his right leg to cancer in 1977, Fox began his "marathon of hope" in St. John's, Nfld., covering 3,317 miles in 4½ months, before the disease, which had spread to his lungs, forced him to abandon the venture near Thunder Bay, Ont. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just...
Repeaters are often the ones who are released, while longtimers who are good parole risks remain caged for years. Most inmates serving lengthy sentences are rational and responsible individuals who would function very well in a halfway-house setting...
...counteract this threat, the government employs Indiana Jones, an improbably handsome archeology teacher and part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty much irrelevant as far as plot goes. Suffice it to say Jones travels halfway around the world, through Nepal, Egyptian bazzars, through Cairo and the Mediterranean, flung headfirst into an impossible maze of threats, subterfuge and adventure...