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...they boarded their flight in Swaziland last week, the burly young men in blazers, sports shirts and flannels looked every inch a South African rugby club off on a holiday to the Seychelles, the small (pop. 65,000), sun-drenched chain of islands off the East African coast. But soon after they arrived at Mahé's airport, their vacation plans went abruptly awry. When a surprised immigration official discovered a gun in one of the visitors' bags, the chap's companions whipped out automatic weapons. Obviously, this was no ordinary package tour. This was a coup...
...propel gas through the pipeline are of U.S. design, and all of the 125 turbines driving them will be built by European firms under license from General Electric. In addition, the Soviets have decided to buy the equipment that will haul and lay the heavy sections of 56-inch pipe from the Caterpillar Tractor...
...with a briefcase full of work. Reagan took Barbara and his dogs Victory and Millie out for a spin in his battered 1963 Jeep. Inadvertently, he hauled up close to the edge of roadside embankment. Said Walters off camera: "You know, if we roll down one more inch, we'll be off this precipice." Replied Reagan cheerfully: "I'll just have to remember reverse from forward...
...Prince's superiority over standard racquets rests in the fact that the best place to hit the ball is located in the racquet head's three-inch area of added size, an area which does not even exist on traditional racquets. About two-thirds from the grip, this critical spot would fall embarrassingly on the throat of the standard racquet, So, up to a point, the larger hitting surface improves players' game by 35 per cent, according to customer surveys...
...crisp but unassuming professionalism that is rarer than it ought to be. Perhaps best of all, the script, by sometime Journalist Kurt Luedtke, who was once part of a Pulitzer-winning investigative team on the Detroit Free Press, has a marvelously entertaining intricacy, briskly and believably building, half-inch by half-inch, Michael's outrage over and Megan's entrapment in the plot to get him. When, finally, Michael turns on his tormentors, he does so by concocting a plan that permits him and the audience a revenge that is all the sweeter because it does not involve...