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...Battling jet lag, midterm blues and rusty play, the top-seeded Crimson shot past Iowa yesterday at the UC-Irvine Tourney in Irvine...
Flying at 30,000 ft. over the frozen flatlands of Ohio, where a winter storm was barreling eastward, the Gulfstream jet shuddered violently. The big man in the comfortable leather seat looked sharply toward the cockpit, as if to ask "What the hell is going on in there?" He has been wearing that expression quite a bit lately, for the man is Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, 65, and he has been weathering a storm of his own for the past few months. Even the elegant corporate jet on which he flew last week was symbolic of the crisis. A week...
...just huffing, seeking an edge in the imminent bargaining. At the Pentagon, a Navy captain insisted that Philippine officials "have cried wolf one time too often" over Subic and that the U.S. might pull out. Aquino, who was saved from a military coup last December when U.S. jet fighters from Clark kept rebel air power grounded, caught a lot of domestic heat over her dependence on the U.S. She may have used Cheney's visit to show some distance. While the U.S. bases are often picketed by leftists, polls show that a majority of Filipinos want them to stay. They...
...morning the goddam company was not there. The vastly overextended IOS had fallen victim to the bear market of 1970. So had Cornfeld, who gave up his castles in France and Switzerland, as well as his jet and Rolls-Royce. Today he is dealing real estate in Europe, his celebrated harem now "down to sort of a skeleton crew of three or four...
...leaders of the three South American nations that are the source of virtually all the world's cocaine will hold their five-hour meeting. An additional 5,000 troops have set up pedestrian checkpoints and roadblocks. Nearby, frogmen are scouring waters for submerged bombs, and a force of jet fighters and helicopter gunships will patrol...