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They had to pick the twelve triple-combination locks that secured the coffin, but somehow the grave robbers at Buenos Aires' Chacarita Cemetery managed the task. Their take: a ceremonial saber and the hands of Juan Peron, who was perhaps Argentina's most revered President. After the break-in was discovered two weeks ago on the 13th anniversary of Peron's death, a group called "Hermes IAI and the 13" claimed responsibility for the theft and demanded $8 million in return for the severed parts. If the ransom was not met by this week, the group threatened, Peron's hands...
...government was able to come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...
...debut in the fall, as well as to commands from a keyboard. The starting price is high: about $250 for a set of two hero robots, two villainous ones and two keyboards. Another competitor will be World Events Productions of St. Louis, which is developing interactive toys to accompany Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. The show features a crew of outer-space cowpokes whose posse youngsters can join by aiming a six-gun "vaporizer...
What they dug up was an impressive collection of "the world's tiniest dinosaurs," but one member of the Canadian Parliament has charged that their handling of the saber-toothed crocodiles, fish and footprints was more than a tiny bit illegal. He claims the scientists--a Columbia University professor and a Harvard graduate student--brought their find back to Cambridge in violation of Canadian legislation...
Gunslinger? Saber rattler? The accusation pains the President. But he is convinced that the Soviets went back to Geneva because they felt it was finally in their interest. "We had unilaterally disarmed so over the years that there wasn't any reason for the Soviet Union to give in . . . We are showing a determination to maintain a national defense policy. They hadn't seen that before. And I think they knew that we were looking at them realistically, and then I think the crowning thing was our going forward with research to see if there was a defensive weapon...