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...proclaimed boxing an affront to God and announced he was quitting forever. This is the same Foreman who ballooned to 320 lbs. from a fighting trim of 217, and even today at 255 is far beefier than anyone who wants to hold the title should be. As for the recent wins, all were against unknowns or retreads who will probably never get within spitting distance of the Top Ten contenders...
Labor's decision to delay the Central Committee vote until perhaps early August was viewed as an attempt to seek reconciliation. Labor's reluctance to leave the government is not surprising; a recent opinion poll indicates that a new election would result in victory for Likud...
Last week, as in all recent weeks, housecleaning swamped the rest of his agenda. The Secretary did win a brief respite from his headaches by traveling to Detroit, where he achieved a rare feat for a Republican leader: he received three standing ovations from the N.A.A.C.P.'s annual convention. Kemp admitted candidly that the G.O.P. was "nowhere to be found" in the great civil rights struggles of the 1960s and vowed that his party will change. He called on South Africa to "let our people go." But such pleasantries inevitably faded as he addressed the mess at HUD, earnestly vowing...
Israel's intercommunal war is steadily escalating. As in Lebanon, vigilante violence strikes innocents engaged in the most prosaic activities. As a result, people on both sides of the conflict have come to feel that even their individual survival hangs in the balance. Those who contend that the recent Palestinian attack on a bus full of civilians could be something other than a foretaste of future horrors are urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people...
Townsfolk speculated that the killer had become deranged because of business problems and opposition to his sister's recent marriage. After shooting his relatives, Dornier drove through Luxiol (pop. 128) and neighboring communities, picking off people along the way. One villager shot Dornier in the neck with a rifle, but that did not stop him. Eventually captured by police, Dornier was taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. On Friday he was transferred to a prison hospital near Paris, where he was reported in stable condition. Said Luxiol Mayor Roger Clausse, whose five- year-old niece was among...