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...Leopards, 5-3 entering the contest, opened up with a bruising attack. A 14-5 run late in the first half pushed the visitors to a 12-point lead, which proved to be the largest of the game...
...legislation to rescue the Farm Credit System, the House and Senate passed both on successive days. Summing up the importance that he and Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms attached to passage of the measure, a complicated package that weighs 13 lbs., Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole pointed to the largest box under his office Christmas tree and quipped, "That big one is the farm bill...
...patient hunters are researchers. Their challenging assignment: to begin capturing the last six California condors in the wild. These and 21 other birds in captivity are the only remnants of the once plentiful species, which has a wingspan of nearly 10 ft. and is North America's largest land bird. Fearing that the free birds may not survive much longer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week recommended that they all be trapped and transported to California zoos where the others are housed...
Mickey Mouse pranced across the entire front page of the French Socialist daily Le Matin last Thursday, while another paper added his familiar ears to its logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, called for the construction of a $1 billion, 5,000-acre European Disneyland some 20 miles east of downtown Paris. Said Eisner: "Walt Disney would certainly feel at home here, because European literature inspired so many...
...ruthless second-in-command, Aniello Dellacroce, who died of natural causes earlier this month. Dellacroce apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have been grooming Belotti for the No. 2 job. Though the intemperate Gotti is unlikely to rise to the top of the Mafia's largest family, the killings nevertheless may signal the ascent of a hungrier younger generation of mob leaders. The head may be dead, but the body lives...