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...becomes part of the monster. "The lap game" is even simpler: a crowd forms a huge ring, and everyone sits down simultaneously on the player behind. Though "blob" and "lap" may seem like innocent cavorting, they are serious business to San Francisco's New Games Foundation. An offshoot of a 1973 New Games Tournament, staged by Whole Earth Catalog Creator Stewart Brand, the foundation is now a growing national enterprise. Its goal is nothing less than to change the way Americans play, mainly by replacing competitive games with cooperative "no win" pastimes...
Four of the five were subsequently identified as members of the Second of June Movement, a Berlin offshoot of the Red Army Faction. Their caper was especially embarrassing in light of the fact that three of the women had escaped from another West Berlin jail in 1976. To offset criticism of the shoddy security at Moabit, Bonn then announced the arrests of the terrorists in Yugoslavia on May 11; the news had been kept secret because extradition negotiations were not finished...
...American concern about weight goes back at least two decades, and over the years millions have plunged into diets and all manner of reducing schemes, from daily jogging to lengthy sojourns at high-priced fat farms. To what effect? Very little, says the National Center for Health Statistics, an offshoot of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In fact, the center reports, men and women in most age and height groups actually weigh more than they did 15 years...
...will return only some $1.5 million a year, compared with the $14 million they expect to realize from the office rentals. But The Market, which will be open seven days a week, is a showpiece of the Center. The first of its stores to open was Conran's, offshoot of a successful 34-shop home furnishings chain, called Habitat in Europe...
Police are now searching in Denmark for members of an offshoot of the Baader-Meinhof gang called the Red Army Faction, a West Germany-based group that claimed responsibility for the abduction and murder of West German industrialist Hans Martin Schleyer. Police said they believe the Red Army Faction is also responsible for the explosion...