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After a gleaming second round, things started to unravel. Leg injuries ran amuck. It was a coach's nightmare...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Finish Fifth at Coast Guard Tournament Behind Cole, Willoughby | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...Pulido halted his cream Renault sedan at a stoplight two blocks from the government-owned Inravision studios, a man waiting on a red Suzuki motorcyle dismounted and opened fire. Bullets from a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun hit Pulido in the throat and shoulder and struck Godoy in the leg. The gunman and an accomplice sped off on the motorcycle, as a passerby drove the victims to the hospital. By week's end Godoy was in stable condition, but Pulido, who lost a lung and suffered heart damage, remained on the critical list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Deadliest Beat | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...makes the save of the year with 52 seconds left and the score tied, 3-3, when he leaps up into the air and deflects a Chris Winnes slapshot off his leg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Those Who Were Away... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...made little impression on the judge, known as "Maximum Bob" because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven to a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., to begin serving his time. He is to be transferred to a medium-security medical center in Minnesota and assigned to its work crew. Unless the conviction or sentence is reversed on appeal, he will stay behind bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Wrath of Maximum Bob | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Some soldiers make immediate and tragic exits. Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Point Blank | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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