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...best and perhaps only hope of answering those questions may lie in the interrogation of the one of two hijackers who survived. One of the men was identified by Maltese authorities as Omar Marzouki, a 20-year-old Tunisian. At week's end Marzouki was known to be at a hospital in Valletta, recovering from gunshot wounds in the chest and abdomen, and could not be questioned. Although he was under heavy guard, Egyptian security officials feared he might be targeted for assassination by his mysterious mentors. In the meantime the Egyptians requested his extradition, a move that they expected...
...future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing may have to be handled by the special-effects department: an artful illusion. Producers may lie around the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, smoking cigars, reading Jane Austen and Henry James, looking for a hot love scene. --By Lance Morrow
BORN. To Jessica Lange, 36, Oscar-winning actress (for 1982's Tootsie) whose latest film is Sweet Dreams; and her companion of four years, Sam Shepard, 42, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright (for 1978's Buried Child) whose latest play is the critically acclaimed A Lie of the Mind: a daughter, their first child; in Santa Fe. Name: Hannah Jane. Weight...
...paroles board accepted the arguments of attorneys representing Jewish organizations that Frank had been denied justice. "The state failed to protect Frank or guarantee him an appeal," said Pardons Board Chairman Wayne Snow. "The truth is, we were interested in doing the right thing." CONGRESS A Vote to Ban Lie Detectors...
More than 2 million Americans last year underwent the frequently nerve-racking experience of taking a lie-detector test, or polygraph examination, a threefold increase in a decade. Fully 98% of the tests were ordered not by police but by private employers, who used them mainly to screen job applicants. Now Congress, many of whose members view the tests as a violation of civil rights, is moving to curtail them. Last week, by 236 to 173, the House voted to prevent the general use of the tests by U.S. businesses. Polygraphs, said Montana Democrat Patrick Williams, "in effect require testifying...