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...radio appeal for him to join the leaders of the coup, he again consulted the church's elders. Said DeGolyer: "There is a proverb that says that in a multitude of counsel there is safety." Ríos Montt clasped hands with the elders and prayed. The phone rang. As the others listened on an extension, the general spoke to the coup leaders...
...woke up when the phone rang, flattered to find that the call was for me. Wendy, a friend of Darn's, wanted to go roller skating that afternoon, and could I drive over and pick her up? Sure, I said, reveling in my temporary possession of the '57 Chevy...
Fairfield's citizens blew whistles, banged pots and rang cowbells to shoo the flocks. The starlings stayed. Aerial explosives failed to scare them off. A captured starling, rumor has it, was strangled, his death squeals recorded, and the tape played over loudspeakers. The birds were only briefly gulled...
Cynthia Ozick's career went public in 1966 with Trust, an intellectually ambitious, technically challenging first novel about personal and political betrayal. If the clang of metaphorical boiler plate rang in the reader's ear, so did the voice of new talent. Trust remains Ozick's only published novel. Her reputation rests mainly on collections of short fiction: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories and Bloodshed and Three Novellas. In these works, the author's philosophical and social overview narrowed and intensified. She could be outrageously satirical about current styles of New York life...
...shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for attempting to kill the Pope. Ever since, Agca has claimed that he acted alone. But right from the start, Italian police and the judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment felt to the contrary, yet were strangely reluctant to pursue their leads. Last week Italian investigators finally declared that they...