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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made with Beirut. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart had made it to the bomb site shortly after the explosion and was ready to dictate his first files. Said he: "In almost four years of covering the Middle East, I have never seen a more appalling or sickening sight than I saw this morning...
...pronouncement must have been startling. Meeting with visitors at his palace in Baghdad last week, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bravely ventured a prediction. "Victory is at hand and not far away," he told his guests."With God's help, the final defeat of the enemy is in sight and within our reach. He is like a slaughtered bull in his death throes...
...third game and figured in the winning run when Shortstop Ivan DeJesus erred on a quick Ford bouncer that scored Benny Ayala. It was not unpleasant seeing Ford get up to do these wonderful things, just as, for at least a while, Joe Morgan was a joyous sight. "I have never been this close to going away," he says quietly, but the proud manner in which he adds, "I can still hit the fastest pitches in our league," suggests he will not quit at 40 at that. If his batting average was .230 for the season, a burst of Morgan...
...been in the North Pacific earlier that night. Though the Soviets tracked KAL 007 with radar for more than two hours, it is now believed that their interceptors had trouble finding the airliner. Not until it was about to leave Soviet airspace did they finally bring it into sight, and then they had to make a quick decision. They shot...
...going gets technical at times. Burgess assumes, for example, that most of his readers will recognize the "mystic chord" of Scriabin when they see it on a staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony...