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...next expected to make a quick trip to Brussels, where police last week arrested two Arabs and charged them with conspiracy to commit a crime. Also arrested was their host, a Belgian video store owner in the provincial town of Hasselt, in whose possession police found 40 lbs. of explosives. The Belgian had been previously convicted on charges of illegal arms possession. The disclosure seemed to support suspicions by law-enforcement officials that links exist between terrorist networks and arms suppliers in Europe...
...aspects of his life, Burr, 44, is gripped by something he calls the "perfection imperative." He quit smoking 2½ years ago, for example, wants to lose 20 lbs. and frets about his caffeine habit. Burr thinks everyone has the same imperative, but his constant effort to draw it out of subordinates can sometimes backfire. Four top aides have quit, and another was fired. Said one insider: "He divides the world into people who overdeliver and those who underdeliver...
BORN. To Christie Brinkley, 31, blond supermodel; and her husband Billy Joel, 36, master songwriter whose latest video is The Night Is Still Young: their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Alexa Ray. Weight: 6 lbs...
...Lech Walesa, 42, leader of Poland's outlawed independent union, Solidarity, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace, now working most of the time at his old job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard: their eighth child, fourth daughter; in Gdansk. Name: Brygida Katarzyna. Weight: 8 lbs...
...shorter than the other or the feeble vision and sensitivity to light that sometimes required him to wear the only football helmet ever equipped with sunglasses. On the road, Berry actually carried his own bathroom scale to be sure of a consistent reading. If he played best at 182 lbs., he did not intend to be 181 or 183. Unitas still marvels at the diving catches Berry insisted on rehearsing without much concern for the skin on his elbows and knees. When no passer was handy, Berry's habit was to run phantom patterns over and over, pausing...