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...Brezhnev's highly conspicuous black ZIL limousine was no longer speeding down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt around 10:15 every morning, taking the leader from his suburban dacha to his Kremlin office. Significantly, TASS reported that a visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled a trip to England, where...
...trying to tell him how much time has gone by, Joe's old trainer, Eddie Futch, is no longer his trainer. Futch-not Frazier, not the referee, not Muhammad Ali-stopped the "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975 with a round to go. "Sit down, son; it's all over," Eddie said softly after the devastating 14th round, and put his hand on Joe's shoulder. "No one will ever forget what you did here today...
...voice there is a scratch that shows clearly. "Speech is the most recognizable sign," says Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, once Muhammad's personal physician, no longer in his corner. "Does Muhammad Ali speak today as he spoke in 1971 [the year of the first of the three Ali-Frazier wars]? Listen to Ali yourself and hear the dramatic and sad slowing of Ali's speech, slurring of his words, slowing of his mental processes...
...Muhammad Ali's reaction to losing the first "Fight of the Century" to Frazier in 1971 was to stitch PEOPLE'S CHAMPION on his robe and go about maligning Joe in the black community. That hurt Frazier more than any punch. Ali called Joe "Uncle Tom" for visiting the White House, though that was his own first stop after he retrieved the title from George Foreman in 1974. Whether punishing Floyd Patterson or taunting Ernie Terrell, Ali was never so cruel to anyone as he was to Frazier, whom he termed "ignorant." Frazier simply offended him aesthetically...
Trevor Berbick won a lopsided ten-round unanimous decision last night over Muhammad Ali. Berbick was content to hit Ali in the body, and never really attempted to knock...