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...Soviet naval officer and a band of co-conspirators lock the captain of their ship in his cabin, tie up the other officers and head for asylum in the West. Military authorities learn of the mutiny and set out in pursuit. Sound similar to The Hunt for Red October? No wonder. The incident, revealed last week in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, turns out to have been the real-life basis for Tom Clancy's blockbuster, the film version of which, starring Sean Connery, is now playing across...
...sentence in the courtroom that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
...Captain Tim Kierstead was easily controlling Nick Leary, 7-3, when he fell into a head-lock, and also got pinned in the second period. Harvard was losing for the first time in the match. Things looked bleak...
...betting pool filled anyway. Head for the big N.F.L. pregame monster rally at the Convention Center. Then on to Pat O'Brien's, where they serve a drink called the Hurricane. Note the immediate lowering of atmospheric pressure. Try a cheer: "Go, Pittsburgh!" "Joe Billy, the Steelers are a lock...
...statesman, expecting to rely on his charm and diplomatic skills to work out a compromise. But when the first cry of Samostoyatelnost! -- independence -- sounded from the Lithuanian crowd, Mikhail Gorbachev rapidly abandoned the strategies of genteel diplomacy and adopted the tactics of a ward politician bent on maintaining his lock on a balking constituency. "Independence?" he shouted above the insistent cries. "Let's have it. At the workplace. In cities. Republics. But together...