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...Bucs scored all the runs they needed in the top of the sixth inning when series star Willie Stargell followed Bill Robinson's single with a towering drive to leftfield for a two-run homer off the south-paw starter Scotty McGregor...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Stargell Swings Bucs to Title, Named '79 World Series MVP | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

Lear takes no notice of them even when they begin to paw him. Suddenly, we hear the women's voices, repeating lines from earlier scenes--but the words don't come from the stage; the actresses are silent. These disembodied voices blare over the same loudspeakers that have simulated the storm for ten minutes. In the din--enough to drive anyone mad--poor Lear's voice drops out, his volcanic speeches unheard, his personal apocalypse mastered by a 50-watt amplifier...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...movement and steer it in a more militant, pro-Soviet direction. The Havana summit was a major steppingstone toward a broadening of Cuba's international role - although just what that role is varies with the perspective of the beholder. To Washington policymakers, Cuba is a cat's paw of the Soviet Union, dispatching armed mercenaries to Africa in exchange for financial and material support. To the Kremlin, Cuba is a faithful Communist ally that shares Moscow's interest in defeating imperialism and needs protection from a powerful and hostile U.S. To many Black African nations, Fidel Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Castro's Showpiece Summit | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Robin Knight was given a drink that, he says, made him feel "very ill and out of control." He staggered outside and passed out. Meantime, Knight later said, one of the four Soviet men present told Jean that her husband had "sold" her to them, and another began to paw her. She broke loose and managed to get Robin back to their hotel, where police threatened to arrest him and tried to get Jean to sign a statement accusing her husband of drunken and disorderly conduct. She refused, and the couple eventually were allowed to return to their room. Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Soviet Hit List? | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Southeast Asia and Vietnam is in the way. But the connection to the Sino-Soviet hostilities and the clear collusion of the Chinese invasion with impeialist aims are not a minor element. This is not a simple conflict between two workers states China is acting as the cat's paw of U.S. imperialism...

Author: By Alison Schorr, | Title: The Peking-U.S. Collusion in Vietnam | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

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