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...directors. When Stempel was hospitalized with an attack of high blood pressure, board members did not bother to phone him get-well wishes. When rumors flew that Stempel was about to be ousted, the board issued a statement that conspicuously lacked a denial. Finally, Stempel, 59, bowed to a point-blank demand from a third-generation GM board member, who told him it was time to leave the post he had taken scarcely two years...
...that they are on freely circulating "hit lists." Gumercindo Rodrigues, an adviser to Mendes' National Council of Rubber Tappers, is recovering from two gunshot wounds he suffered last September. Gumercindo was shot on a main street in Rio Branco, the Acre state capital. One shot in the back at point-blank range came from a police officer. Press accounts have also implicated Camilo Yunes Junior, a lumber baron, in the shooting. Yunes denies any involvement. No charges have been filed in what the courts have dismissed as a crime of passion because Gumercindo was involved with the timber merchant...
Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore were standing in a hall of Thomas Jefferson High School, not far from the mayor's security detail. Another student, named Khalil Sumpter, who is 15, allegedly pulled out a .38-cal. revolver and shot Tyrone and Ian at point-blank range. Sumpter had apparently had fistfights with the other boys for weeks. All three had arrest records for robbery and mugging...
Then there are the rumors about womanizing that have dogged Clinton for years and resurfaced in sensationalist tabloids last week. Clinton called the stories "lies" but, asked point-blank by a New Hampshire television interviewer last week, "Have you ever committed adultery?" he replied, "If I had, I wouldn't tell you." He admits that his 16-year marriage has gone through some troubled times but says it is now solid. Friends, and even some foes, note that no one has ever been able to pin down anything...
Harvard had one real chance to score, but sensational play by Bulldogs' goalie Tina Pihl rejected consecutive point-blank shots by Minkus and Laurie Uustal...