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...returning to the scenes of his childhood. A break came in 1930 when Emperor Haile Selassie invited him to attend his coronation in Addis Ababa. After ten days of festivities, the impatient guest slipped off on his first caravan. It took him through the unadministered territory of the Danakil, "Slender figures in short loincloths, their mops of hair dressed with melted butter, they had open, attractive faces, but each of them wore across his stomach a large, curved dagger from which hung leather thongs, one for each man that he had killed and castrated...
Smith is known for her exceptional rebouding, a skill she has acquired despite her slender build. Working out with big, 6-ft., 1-in. center Elaine Holpuch during practice has taught Smith how to handle the bruisings she often takes under the boards...
...beat is still Ronald Reagan, who expects a slender first-place margin in New Hampshire. "A strong second-place showing is not what we want," Jack Thompson, Reagan's campaign press secretary, says. Although he projects a Reagan win in New Hampshire, Thompson says he thinks Bush has the Massachusetts race wrapped up. "Everyone knew Bush would be strong," he says. New England is not Reagan's "strong suit," Thompson says, adding that the former California governor has "no great expectations" for the region because of his poor showing here against Gerald R. Ford...
...they control 80% of the Ogaden; they also concede that they have no hope of driving the Soviet-commanded force of 60,000 Ethiopian militiamen, supported by 6,000 Cuban soldiers, from their strongholds in Jijiga, Harar and Dire Dawa. "It is a stalemate," says Hussein Mohamed Nur, the slender commander of the liberation army in the region near Karraro. "They control the big towns, and we control everything else. They never come out unless it is in a big convoy with tanks and armored cars. Then we attack them and destroy many vehides. On the other hand...
Amid the crumbling columns and pediments in the ancient city of Olympia, a shaft of sunlight glanced off a reflector one day last week and set fire to a slender torch. Next week, after a 5,000-mile flight from the Peloponnesian Peninsula to Athens to the U.S., and a 780-mile relay run from the Virginia Tidewater to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, the Olympic flame will ignite a huge torch on a pedestal at the Lake Placid High School. With that, the 13th Olympic Winter Games "will be officially under way. In 1932, tiny Lake Placid...