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...official autopsy revealed that Isenberg died of massive stab wounds, with complications from severe internal bleeding and a punctured liver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Probe Into Graduate's Murder | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

...moderate states like Saudi Arabia quietly clucked disapproval. Syrian President Hafez Assad most fears a realignment among Arab nations that would shift power away from Damascus and create a new atmosphere of tolerance in the Arab community for Egypt's separate peace with Israel. "This is a treacherous stab in the back of the Arab struggle and an open plot against the Palestinian cause," said Syria's government-controlled newspaper Al Thawra. "Syria will not allow a new Camp David in its neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Friends and Enemies | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...host and a favorite soap-opera actress. Then, early last year, their lives went awry. The couple were on the verge of divorcing, and Vigoreaux was planning to marry a younger woman. On Jan. 17 his charred body, which showed at least eleven stiletto-type stab wounds, was discovered stuffed in the trunk of his red Mercedes-Benz on the outskirts of San Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: Show-Biz Shocker in San Juan | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Like all top athletes, Joan Benoit is accustomed to pain. But one day last March, more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Surgery Won Gold Medals | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...comic strip than just a half-hearted beginning of an understanding of the way we are. Yet if Doonesbury had never been around, neither would Bloom County--for Bloom County is clearly a child of the Doonesbury era. Politically and sometimes sentimentally accurate. Bloom County makes the best stab around at carrying the Doonesbury torch. But Bloom County too often comes dangerously close of the zone between, say. Donesbury and Garfield, where it begins to remind one of Dennis the Menace. Because he has chosen child rather than adult heroes. Breathed sometimes indulges in "aren't they cutisms," which become...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Loony Toons | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

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