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...because he habitually began his seasons at about the same speed as the news departs Missouri, Leonard was never called to any All-Star games. Away at his quickest pace in May 1983, the invincible-looking pitcher with the pirate-red mustache was dispatching a routine strike to Cal Ripken of Baltimore when Leonard's left knee (his landing leg) imploded and he disappeared. As sport usually calculates these things, this scarcely qualified as tragedy, even when lengthy surgeries and lost summers followed one after the other. Besides the memory of nearly 2,000 honorable if unheralded innings, Leonard...
...numerical inferiority, although "parity" in operational terms has existed since at least October 1962. (During a recent visit to the Soviet Union, I was asked by several political and scientific leaders to define nuclear parity. I replied that parity exists when each side is deterred from initiating a strategic strike by the recognition that such an attack would be followed by a retaliatory strike that would inflict unacceptable damage on the attacker. I went on to say: "I will surprise you by stating that I believe parity existed in October 1962, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis...
Four opponents of aid to the contras, three of them Viet Nam veterans, made a last-ditch effort to scuttle the legislation by holding a hunger strike on the steps of the Capitol. Two of the strikers at week's end were on their 41st day of a water-only diet. The protesters are backed by polls showing that the public opposes aid to the contras...
...Pittsburgh-based USX, the steel and energy giant (1985 sales: $19.2 billion), the threat was only the latest in a series of battles. Amid a lengthy steel strike, its first since 1959, and menaced for weeks by speculative stock buying and takeover rumors, the company headed by Chairman David Roderick, 62, faced an $8 billion buyout offer from Carl Icahn, 50, chairman of Trans World Airlines. At week's end it was unclear whether Icahn sought control of USX or merely wanted to pocket a hefty profit for his efforts...
...months ago after a bitter takeover battle. Few thought Icahn would ever be able to turn around the airline, which lost $193 million in 1985 and $257 million in the first half of this year. But after a series of hard-nosed measures, including victory in a three-month strike by TWA's 6,500 flight attendants, Icahn was able to announce earnings of $72 million for the third quarter of 1986. He has promised an unspecified profit for the fourth quarter. If he delivers, it will be the first time TWA has finished that period in the black since...