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...called himself "the man that Denver loves to hate" and delighted in insulting his listeners. He liked to boast that his enemies included the Ku Klux Klan, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the American Nazi party and a legion of crank callers. His Denver radio station, KOA, even kept a list of people who had threatened his life. Thus when combative Radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg, 50, was gunned down in his driveway late one night last week, many wondered at first which of his listeners was the killer...
...points, and a year's supply of mental floss, what American philosopher, whose latest book has been ensconced on the New York Times best seller list for 40 weeks, described the stance of a pregnant woman as "like a kangaroo wearing Earth Shoes...
Early in 1983, rumors were circulating that Rowny had pre pared a "secret hit list" containing his derogatory estimates of members of the delegation and other Administration officials...
...There is no hit list," Rowny kept asserting. But in March it came to light that Rowny had indeed given a private memorandum to Kenneth Adelman, the young conservative deputy to U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, whom National Security Adviser Clark had selected to replace Rostow as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The document criticized various individuals, including Rowny's principal deputy, James Goodby, who was declared suspect on grounds of being too eager for an agreement. (Goodby subsequently left the START delegation and now heads the American negotiating team at the Conference on Disarmament in Europe...
...Olympic Committee added anabolic steroids to its list of banned sub stances in 1973. Since then, the drugs have become ever more widely used as men and women seek to push their bodies to still higher levels of attainment. In the U.S., where synthetic steroids were developed about half a century ago, their use is thought to extend from world-class athletes to high school football players. Soviet and East European trainers are widely believed to have been giving the drugs to their athletes since the 1950s. Nor will it be possible for athletes to escape detection simply by stopping...