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...possibly be guilty. Reason: on the morning the judge was shot dead in front of his San Antonio town home, said Harrelson, he had been in Dallas, running some extraordinary errands: returning a golf putter he had borrowed to determine how much cocaine he could hide in its shaft for a drug-smuggling scheme, buying a cashier's check to pay for a car he had bought under an assumed name, and collecting some gambling debts. Government prosecutors charge that Harrelson, 44, convicted once of murder for hire (he served five years before a parole in 1978), killed Wood...
Arnold, beard quivering, bored in with a recital of disaster. "Mr. President, you have the us the largest tax increase in the U.S. history . . . the Soviets get the wheat situation the Americans get the shaft. We have a Tylenol taxing situation . . . and we have a Reagan-mortis setting in to the nation's body politic...
...Iranian commanders. By noon, two Iraqi divisions and two border guard brigades had been surrounded and almost entirely taken prisoner; the rest of the Iraqi force of about 12,000 men was fleeing. Said an Iranian captain afterward: "Some were so frightened that they threw themselves into the shaft and struck out for the Iraqi shore. I saw a few drown. They could not swim, and their comrades, desperate to save themselves, let them go down...
...patch of rail sidings and weeds is now a nearly complete 77-acre complex of gleaming pavilions, an aerial tramway, a fabric-covered amphitheater and a quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which with its gilded-globe top looks like the world's only 266-ft. microphone. Says Fair President S.H. ("Bo") Roberts: "This is going to be a bench mark. We will think of Knoxville before and Knoxville after...
MSHA has not yet issued its findings on the Mink Branch tragedy, but Commissioner Stanley, a former miner, thinks that the blasting ignited coal dust suspended in the dank, clammy shaft. "We were very surprised by some of the things we saw in there," Stanley says. "The whole situation was very improper...