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...moved her torso in and out of body waves with ease, balanced in arabesque without flinching, and seemed to lengthen her arms every time she lifted them. In addition, Manning used the famous white skirt with ruffled edges to her advantage--charging her figure with momentum as she maneuvered rapid figure-eight turns in the last few minutes...
...book contends that the Soviets have deployed more than 70 SS-25 missiles, a mobile system armed with a single warhead. The rapid deployment of these weapons, begun only last year, is particularly galling to the Reagan Administration, which considers them a violation of the 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement. That treaty, which the U.S. never has ratified but has agreed to observe, permits each side to develop only one new ICBM. Washington charges that the SS-25 is the Soviets' second (the first was the SS-X-24), while Moscow counts it as merely an updated version...
...quick-change artist of the microbe world, a virus that minutely alters its external make-up, dozens of times as fast as the influenza bug. The rapid evolution of the deadly AIDS virus is a source of wonder to scientists. "We have not yet seen two viruses that are identical from two patients," says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading AIDS researcher at Harvard. Where did the deadly germ come from? Did it evolve from a less harmful variety? Last week reports from both sides of the Atlantic offered clues to the origins of the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome...
Ortega's rise within Sandinista ranks was rapid. In 1963, after a brief stint studying law, he joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and by 1967, at the age of 22, he was already the head of the urban-resistance campaign. He helped found the Tercerista faction, or Third Party, within the divided Sandinista movement, which forged an alliance with the widespread middle-class opposition to Somoza. Mainly on the strength of that bond, the Sandinistas came to power. After serving as the first among equals in the party command and in the nine-man National Directorate...
...time, an overthrown Big Boy almost invariably expired along with his power. Now, in the era of telephone and television (to keep track of how close the other side is coming) and the helicopter and jet (for rapid extraction when the front door gives way), there is building an exclusive international brotherhood of exiled Big Boys with leftover lives to kill...