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...Both papers reported the incident, naming Cohen as the source of the leak. MARLENE JOHNSON ARRESTS DISCLOSED BY WHITNEY ALLY, declared the front-page headline in the Star Tribune. Columnist Jim Klobuchar, a friend of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Rudy Perpich, then decried Cohen as a "sleazy" player. Cartoonist Steve Sack drew Cohen trick- or-treating at Perpich headquarters dressed as a trash can labeled "Last minute campaign smears...
...Forgive the present, Yevgeny Alexandrovich, but it's a precious thing nowadays," said a distant relative as she put a sack of sugar, almost impossible to find, on our May Day holiday table. This was in the 71st year of Soviet power, over 40 years after the war! And suddenly I caught myself happy with the small domestic predatory joy of obtaining, which for so many of us substitutes for any real joy of existence. The woman sighed and said, "Look what we've come to . . . And it's all the fault of our damned priterpelost...
Delvalle, meanwhile, had grown convinced that Noriega would have to go. But nothing suggested that the President had the nerve to sack the general. A graduate of Louisiana State University and a former sugar-company executive, Delvalle was Vice President in 1985, when Noriega fired President Nicolas Ardito Barletta. Associates say Delvalle has increasingly sought to become his own man. "He didn't want to go into history as a Panamanian who lacked the guts to do what his country needed," explains a close friend. "Delvalle was not pressured by the U.S. to do this. He was pressured...
Cradling a sack of grain under one arm and a bag of eggs in the other, a stout woman leaves the open-air market and climbs into a horse-drawn taxi. The elderly driver, a smile creasing his weathered face, tugs on the reins and utters a sharp "Vamonos!" as the black carriage with a torn leather awning rolls away. The scene could have come from Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry's collection of picturesque short stories set in turn-of-the-century Central America. But this is no quaint, fictitious land. This is modern-day Nicaragua...
...legendary veteran is Thomas Wassberg, who ranks tenth internationally. Now 31, he has been on the squad since he won a European junior championship at 17, and Calgary may be his last hurrah. He will be missed, both for his sleepy off-course demeanor (hence his nickname "the Sack") and his sportsmanship; at the 1980 Olympics he offered to share the gold medal in the 15-km with a Finnish skier who finished a whisker-thin two- thousandths of a second behind him. Wassberg took much of 1986 off, then stormed back last year, and could...