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With 30 seconds to go in the fourth round, Ali backed into his corner and held onto the upper rope strand with his right hand. As Holmes closed in, Ali threw a triple hook, all three of which landed...
...Ivan Strand Aspen, Colo...
...Jerusalem, Begin was still clinging to power, though by a fairly narrow strand. During a nine-hour meeting of his Cabinet, he won approval for a $140 million cut in his defense budget of $3.6 billion. By so doing, he averted an all-out clash with, on the one hand, Finance Minister Yigael Hurvitz, who was pressing for a cut of $300 million, and on the other, with Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, who said that any cut over $80 million could endanger Israel's security. Hurvitz's threatened resignation could have reduced the parliamentary majority of Begin...
...thickest. The battle rages for more than an hour--neighbors watch the action from their kitchen windows, and throughout the fight demonstrators and police alike politely walk around a large vegetable garden in the middle of the battle, a freshly-turned plot guarded only by one strand of white twine...
...collaborators in Tehran is not known but seems improbable. The mission leaders suggested that after one helicopter collided with a parked C-130 at the landing strip and both erupted into flames, the resulting shrapnel and flying debris from exploding ammunition threatened to damage four other C-130s and strand the entire party. When asked about this last week, Colonel Charlie Beckwith, who was in charge of the 90-man assault force, said tersely: "That wasn't my job. I can't talk to that. I got all my stuff out of there." Perhaps protectively, the Navy...