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...loser in the Arab realignment is Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. His support of Iraq has earned him the enmity of Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia and the gulf states that had been the P.L.O.'s principal financiers. Abu Dhabi would not even let Arafat's plane touch down on its territory last week. Dubai grudgingly permitted a landing when the aircraft ran dangerously low on fuel, but only on the condition that Arafat not set foot outside the plane...
Pauley's early life was as real as it gets. She grew up in Indianapolis, the daughter of a milk salesman who traveled half the time (though, she says, "I mostly remember him being home"). In high school Jane was a six-time loser for homecoming queen but a whiz at extemporaneous speaking. Her toughest rival in statewide competitions was another future TV star: actress Shelley Long...
...loser last week was Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose more conservative scheme for a gradual switch to a market economy -- to be achieved over a period of two years -- was rejected by parliament in June. According to rumors, Ryzhkov was so disappointed at being bypassed on the commission that he refused to sign the document that created...
...great lines ("Aren't you gonna frisk me?") and sports more than one outrageously sultry outfit (if you think the front of some of those dresses are something, wait til you see the backs of them!). But in the end, she, too, is disappointing, mainly because she plays a loser...
...gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from Reno who got his nickname from an oceanic losing streak in Carson City, Nev. (a sure loser is a fish, and a tuna is a big fish), just sits at the table looking massive. He hasn't much choice; but if he's winning (which he is, just now) and you're not, maybe your mind wanders, and you begin wondering just how much...