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...accused of ordering the ambushes in which 23 Pakistani peacekeepers died may not be "the Eisenhower of Somalia," as he has described himself. But he is also not the simple thug that the U.S. has made him out to be. The sixtyish former ambassador to India remains the most prominent figure in the powerful Habr Gadir clan and a heavyweight in the country's precarious power balance. He is widely respected by Somalis for his leadership in ousting former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre and for his military successes on behalf of his clan. His anti-U.N. and -U.S. radio...
...heart of America, minor-league baseball. Writing in the spirit of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Lamb forsakes dramatic narrative for an endearing travelogue filled with small piquant details. His odyssey is oddly humbling. He encounters a boyhood hero, Hall of Fame slugger Eddie Matthews, now a sixtyish minor-league batting coach nursing a fearsome hangover and brooding that his young disciples "don't know who I am, what stats I put on the board." Lamb himself, used to sparking conversations with tales of his globe-trotting adventures, quickly discovers that baseball is a closed universe devoid of curiosity about...
Midmorning. "It has been a quiet revolution," the woman is saying. She is sixtyish, an actress in the Berliner Ensemble, the repertory theater founded by Bertolt Brecht. In the corner of the room, images flicker on the television screen. The pictures are of villas and hunting dachas and the commentator is talking about hundreds of millions of deutsche marks smuggled out of the country and into Swiss bank accounts...
Donald Regan never knew the name of the "Friend," as Nancy Reagan referred to her astrologer. But TIME learned last week that she is Nob Hill Socialite Joan Quigley, sixtyish, a Vassar graduate who has written three books on astrology (see story on page...
Thin and well-coiffed, Quigley, sixtyish, is not unlike many of the First Lady's California friends. The daughters of John B. Quigley, a San Francisco hotelier and prominent Republican, Joan and her sister Ruth grew up in a penthouse suite overlooking Union Square. Although both were noted for their beauty, neither married...