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...else came close. Nearly crashing into a tree, Colorado's Werner was lucky to finish 17th, and the fastest of all the U.S. skiers, as it turned out, was California's Ni Orsi, 19, who had barely qualified for the team, wound up 14th. Winner Zimmermann did his best to console the losers. "After all," he said, "it's only proper that an Austrian should win on an Austrian mountain...
Acting on a tip, Caracas police captured four F.A.L.N. hoods hiding out in a midtown apartment. One of them was a real prize: José Rómulo Niño, 27, a leader in the spectacular hijacking of the government freighter Anzoátegui, the brains behind a $250,000 stickup last August, and trigger man this month in a police station raid that left one policeman dead. But no sooner was the good news announced than the government discovered that nine other F.A.L.N. leaders had somehow escaped from a maximum-security prison in western Venezuela. At large again...
...Daddy Ni died six years ago, never having seen Richard in a play or movie. He tried once?setting out to see My Cousin Rachel when it was playing in a Port Talbot cinema. On the way down the valley he stopped in 17 pubs. Finally settled in the theater, he watched the film begin. One of the first things Richard did on the screen was to pour himself a drink. "That's it," said Daddy Ni...
...Fathers. Daddy Ni cared more about education than anything else, even Rugby football, and from Richard's earliest memory, Daddy Ni and Richard's brothers Ivor, Tom, Will and Dai fixed their attention on Richard and said, "You shall go to Oxford." All the brothers save Graham had worked the coal face (Richard himself never worked in the '""s), and some of them went on to other positions in local government, the police, and the army. In Richard, however, the family planted its dream of something better beyond the valley. "The idea of a Welsh miner's son going...
...Washington, Food for Peace officials have coined a name for the project-Alianza para los Niños, meaning Alliance for Children. The food is credited with helping to double Peru's rural school attendance since the program began; school absenteeism in Bolivia has dropped from 38% to 2%, and students now make sure to be on time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma...