Word: sagaing
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Within 24 hours of setting out, the travelers were seized by contras. They spent 29 hours in custody before being released unharmed. Every stage of the Witnesses' saga received carefully managed press coverage. Even their capture was recorded, over an open radio link, by a television crew standing by in the Witness for Peace headquarters in Managua...
...shot. on how to beat retirement. The exiled monarch of Tunisia, King Rechad al-Mahdi, 38, was virtually unknown when he spoke soporifically about the need for a constitutional monarchy two years ago. But an enterprising agent now gets him $2,500 for a lecture called "A Royal Saga." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington
...saga of Yurchenko was played out against a backdrop of defection politics that further taxed the Administration. In Afghanistan a Soviet soldier who had sought refuge at the U.S. embassy in Kabul finally left in the company of the Soviet Ambassador last week, but only after the embassy had been ringed by hundreds of Soviet and Afghan troops for five days and its electricity and phone lines cut off. In New Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both...
...inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently drifted off to an unhappy ending...
...hushed roomful of executives looks on, Luke Skywalker makes a daring decision. Crouched in the cockpit of his spaceship, the hero of the Star Wars saga switches off a computer scanner and aims the craft's laser guns himself. Goof-off time in the boardroom? In fact, that dramatic scene is from a videocassette of the best seller Megatrends, one of a growing number of popular books being used in taped form in management-training programs. The next face on the screen belongs not to Darth Vader but to Author John Naisbitt, who explains the lesson of the space segment...