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...predawn passage of the measure was an unexpected consequence of a proposal by the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Robert Dole of Kansas, to improve the reporting of tips at hotels and restaurants. The Treasury Department believes that perhaps $10 billion in tips is not reported as income every year. After his tip provision was defeated during...
...predawn Iranian attack routed the Iraqi forces with an ease that surprised even the Iranian commanders. By noon, two Iraqi divisions and two border guard brigades had been surrounded and almost entirely taken prisoner; the rest of the Iraqi force of about 12,000 men was fleeing. Said an Iranian captain afterward: "Some were so frightened that they threw themselves into the shaft and struck out for the Iraqi shore. I saw a few drown. They could not swim, and their comrades, desperate to save themselves, let them go down...
...months the question in Bangladesh was not if, but when, the military would seize power again. Ever since he was elected last November, President Abdus Sattar, 76, a former justice of the supreme court, had resisted demands by the military for power in his government. Last week, in a predawn coup, Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, 52, army chief of staff, ousted Sattar and in stalled himself as strongman. "I have no political ambition," the general asserted in a radio and television broadcast announcing the takeover. "My whole and sole aim is to re-establish democracy...
...spacecraft, including the U.S. space shuttle Columbia, Ariane has had its problems. Its second trial in May 1980 ended with a mid-air explosion. But since then, it has carried four satellites, two per launch, into high earth orbit. The most recent lift-off came in the predawn darkness on Dec. 20, when Ariane awoke the sleeping jungle with a fusillade of flame and thunder. Last week, in Paris, the eleven-nation European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed what Ariane's customers had been eagerly waiting to hear: that the rocket was ready and able to launch satellites...
Piaf. The Sparrow's song-brief in ecstasy, extreme pain-was the predawn Paris blues. Tribute in kind was paid Piaf in the searing Tony Award-winning performance of Jane Lapotaire...