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...suddenly to us all. One day you're young and brilliant and sullen to your elders, and the next you're getting junk mail from the American Association of Retired Persons and people your very own age are talking about pension plans and the prostate. Last week, on the southwest windowsill of my studio, I found a note written in tiny strokes in the dust, with two exhausted houseflies lying beside...
Iguchi, who is now an American citizen, shed his Japanese roots early on. A native of Kobe, he graduated from high school in 1969 and swiftly lit out for the territory, which in this case meant Southwest Missouri State University, in Springfield. Iguchi, one of 54 foreigners in a student body of more than 12,000, majored in psychology and became a cheerleader before graduating in 1975. "He was a little shy," recalls retired mathematics professor Howard Matthews, who advised foreign students at the school. Matthews remembers Iguchi as "an A and B student and a courteous young...
...from a group calling itself the "Sons of the Gestapo," said the tampering had been done in "retaliation for Waco and the siege of Ruby Ridge." One person was killed and 65 wounded as several cars left the tracks and fell 30 feet down a desert ravine 60 miles southwest of Phoenix. Engineers report seeing something on the tracks just before the accident. Local authorities say 29 rail spikes that fasten the track to the cross-ties had been removed from a 19-foot section of the track. Two men were briefly detained and questioned, but were cleared...
...Washington was electrifying enough. As a clutch of State Department officials peered over his shoulder, he unfolded a map of Bosnia atop Christopher's desk, took out a ball-point pen and drew a line running from the northern border town of Dvor south to Sanski Most, then snaking southwest to the city of Jajce...
Belarus claims that information never reached officials at the military base, 100 miles southwest of Minsk, where a blip produced by Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' balloon suddenly appeared on radar screens, dangerously close to one of several strategic missile bases that dot the area. Belarussian officials sent two Mi-24 helicopter gunships into the air to investigate. One of the choppers found the balloon, approached within 110 yards and attempted, without success, to establish radio contact. (Race organizers suspect that the pilots were unable to respond because their batteries had gone dead during the three-day flight...