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...months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...
...every soul on earth. At an open-air Mass, he told 300,000 cheerful but attentive listeners that, if unleashed, society's war machines today would make even the destruction of World War II pale in comparison. He spoke near the most renowned landmark in Coventry, England: the remnant of the bombed-out Anglican cathedral, left standing as a perpetual reminder of the horrors of war. The Pontiff painted a chilling picture of "people . . . under the shadow of a nuclear nightmare...
...great big mystery was: Who seized the Grand Marnier bottle, smashed it against the wall, and then used the jagged remnant to tear out Louise Pickering's throat? The police had charged Charles Day Terry, 17, who worked as a dishwasher at Pickering's restaurant and who had twice been confined to mental institutions. Terry claimed an unusual alibi: he had been buying marijuana in Annapolis on the night of the murder. He said he had been mugged in the process, and that was why there was blood on his shirt...
...real adventures are to be had in center, a remnant of the days when ball parks didn't all come from the Riverfront-Three River cookie cutter. Compared to left field, center in Fenway is the Wild West, a vast (almost 430 ft. to straight away center) and mysterious (a high wall that tapers down to the tiny bullpen barrier) piece of real estate. But Lynn studied it and had become its master. (If you're unimpressed, think about how many great centerfielders the Sox have had over the years. Not many.) After completing his fifth year in centerfield...
Austin, a gilded hack writer, has taken a mini-sabbatical from his wife and children to sweat out a movie script. Since his mother has gone to Alaska - symbolic remnant of the last frontier - he has holed up in her home in suburban Los Angeles. Like an anchorite, Lee spends time communing with the desert, but he certainly knows his way around town when it comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer...