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Sheriff Howard Wells, unfazed by his sudden fame, directed his team along parallel tracks. With the help of a new FBI computer system, authorities pursued every lead that came in, from psychics and crackpots, from well- meaning citizens as far away as the West Coast. A motel desk clerk in Seattle told police that a man had driven up in a car with South Carolina plates and dropped off a little boy. Police hoped it might be Alex. But it turned out to be someone else's child...
...UCLA will issue a parallel guide to teaching world history. Disagreements over how to treat Western European civilization in relation to other cultures are said to have been particularly intense. In short, the conflict over National Standards may be only the first round in a long, bitter intellectual skirmish...
...lives. Most experts agree that in highly secretive North Korea, no low-ranking officer could have access to such information. Other defectors reveal secrets that sound plausible. Ahn Myung Jon, a military infiltration expert, said he used his skills to cross the heavily fortified DMZ on the 38th parallel after a disagreement with his superiors. He described being trained inside an uncannily accurate underground model of Seoul to insinuate himself into the capital. Given North Korea's success in sneaking agents into the South, the account had credibility...
...name. "Germany," says a senior NATO official in Brussels, "is probably the only major country that is whole- heartedly committed to both NATO and the European Union." Germans must realize, Kohl said last week, that their new unity "will be wasted if we don't press ahead in parallel with European unity...
Clearly, somebody forgot to coordinate the University's spin control. And, recognizing the administration's double-talk, students who work closely with the Foundation are upset. "The sudden move of the office to a basement of a student dorm suggests that (the Foundation's) role is only remedial and parallel to that of any other student organization," says Kristen M. Clarke '97, president of the Black Students Association...