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Hasenfus was allowed only one minute with his wife Sally last week, and eleven minutes with a consular officer from the U.S. embassy in Managua. When she returned home to Marinette, Wis., Sally Hasenfus said her husband looked "very, very stiff." Said she: "I told him, 'We're not going to give up, and we're going to get you out of here.' " In Atlanta former Attorney General Griffin Bell announced that he would fly to Managua to defend Hasenfus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes Oct 27 1986 | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...smoke clears, she takes the infant home to San Francisco, then spurns a marriage proposal from the only man she will ever truly love in order to nurse her feeble grandfather through his final days. A saint? No, only a Danielle Steel heroine, traveling through life with a stiff moral code and a wardrobe of backless satin dresses. Throughout her 20th book, the author honors the great Late Show tradition: in Dodsworth (1936) Walter Huston sighed to Ruth Chatterton, "Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?" In Casablanca (1942), as the Nazis marched on Paris, Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 13, 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...hotly contested matters as sending advanced AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia and aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But ) last week Reagan's fabled reserves of luck and persuasion finally ran out. Both houses of Congress voted decisively to override his veto of a bill calling for stiff economic sanctions against South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Laying Down the Law | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson men (3-1-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy), who suffered their first loss of the season last week by falling to nationally ranked Hartwick, 3-1, will face stiff opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Showdowns: Cornell vs. Crimson | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

Harvard came close a couple of times against the Tribe, though. In the final minute of the first quarter, Crimson place-kicker Andy Maretz had a shot at a 42-yd. field goal. But kicking into a stiff breeze, Maretz's attempt landed harmlessly in the front of the endzone...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Virginia Reeling | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

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