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DIED. GNASSINGBE EYADEMA, 69, President of Togo; of a heart attack; in Piya, Togo. A former army colonel who came to power in a military coup in 1967, he was Africa's longest-serving ruler. With the threat of turmoil in the wake of his sudden death, Togo's military high command named his son Faure Eyadema to succeed...
...Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, a swampy archipelago in the Indian state of West Bengal, which has by way of tourist attraction the dual charms of man-eating tigers and cyclonic storms. Wading into the marshlands are Piya, an Indian-American marine biologist looking for a rare dolphin that might inhabit its waters, and Kanai, a bored rake from Delhi on the lookout for a more common sort of catch?a lonely American. Things go topsy-turvy for Kanai when Piya decides her search for the dolphin will need the expert guidance of Fokir, a silent, brooding local...
...resonance among their authors as this week's cover on adoption. The profound complexities of the subject were especially well understood by at least one correspondent, researcher and writer: all three have experienced adoption firsthand. Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth, who suggested the project, is the adoptive father of Piya, 5, and Mike, 4. Already parents of a son, David, who arrived the conventional way, Willwerth and his wife Ardis chose a daughter and a second son from two different Bangkok orphanages during his assignment in Thailand. Giving a home to "waiting" children "longing for love and attention," says Willwerth...
...while the coach was hoping to use Siamese Piya Chakkaphak, last year's star freshman, at center forward, but Chakkaphak has been declared ineligible. By the time Chakkaphak can return to safe academic water the season will be almost over. Another man Munro will miss is Mal Greenidge, last year's freshman captain, who has dropped out of College...
Robert L. Berger, Piya Chakkaphak, Henry N. Claman, Pascal Covici, Jr., Humphrey Doermann, Werner Drehmel, Charles W. Eliot 3d, William R. Engstrom, Benjamin Goldstein, Malcolm C. Greenridge (captain), Robert S. O. Harding, John H. T. Harvey, Edgar C. Henshaw, John A. Kauffman, John A. Kiggen 3d, Robert F. A. Lawson, Laurence B. Leonard, Jr., Duncan H. McCallum, James L. McLaughlin, Charles C. Osborne, Hewitt Pantaleoni, Joseph P. Flemming (manager...