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...fights like a woman." Ali clinches with Jones and dances round the ring at his isolated, frontier-style training complex, where he sleeps in a cabin equipped with pump-handle faucets and coal stoves. "Tie him up," Ali laughs. "Waltz with him. That's the way you stall for time...
...were beginning so quickly and that "other working groups" were to be set up later. The Israelis were relieved that such imprecise terms as "at some future date" or "as needed in the light of future developments" were included, thereby enabling them to begin the talks immediately, but to stall until after the Israeli elections on Dec. 31 without actually violating the terms of the agreement...
Bilik had his team stall near the end of regulation time and in the overtime period. With 32 seconds remaining in regulation time and the score at 70-70, Bilik had his team stall until 15 seconds remained. Harvard recovered the ball with :05 to go. Sanders utilized his time-outs perfectly, but Artie Needleman was left with the ball and no shot as time...
Recently, Sadat had seemed more interested in burnishing his diplomatic image than in destroying Israel. He managed to stall Libyan demands for merger with Egypt. He proposed the establishment of a Palestinian nation, which seemed to indicate that he was trying to separate Egypt's quarrel with Israel from Palestinian territorial demands that scarcely concerned Egypt. Only last week, in what seemed like the most conciliatory move of all, Cairo announced that the U.S.'s Bechtel Corp. had been chosen to construct a new $345 million pipeline between the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Shadowy Figure. In addition to the three grave sites pointed out by Henley and Brooks, police learned from the boatyard manager that Corll had put his name on a waiting list for still another boat stall. Police were looking into the possibility of other burial grounds perhaps unknown to either Brooks or Henley. Ominously, Corll had once told Henley that some of his early victims were in California, and he may have killed before Henley and Brooks became his companions in blood...