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After leaving Oman at dawn, the homeward-bound group stopped in Cairo for its meeting with President Mubarak, who had succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat only three weeks before. Mubarak stressed his determination to rebuild relations with his estranged Arab brothers, and appealed for more U.S. investment in Egypt's troubled economy...
...Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed to maximize casualties; salvo after salvo of rockets, fired at tenor 15-minute intervals, fell on the two communities at an hour when many of their residents were homeward bound from work and thus unprotected...
When Concha's parents refused to allow the match on religious grounds, Rezanov returned to Russia, vowing: "I shall wring consent from my Tsar, the Pope, your father!" But on the homeward trek across Siberia, the nobleman died on the icy steppes, causing his disconsolate Concha to become "San Francisco's first...
...inevitable. A musical funeral procession always attracts a crowd much bigger than the main body of mourners, and it is this public aggregation, known as "the second line," that surrenders to a carnival spirit after the band "turns the body loose" (as the musicians put it), and on the homeward march begins rocking the air with solid jive...
Most immediately, the netmen have a chance to make the West Coast big boys sit up and take notice that Harvard tennis has come of age. But ask any member of the team and his thoughts will wander homeward. He will reply simply and without hesitation, "Beat Princeton...