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...also had troubles with the rumor mills. The company was badly stung last year when its new PCjr could not live up to expectations. Computer Retail News, a trade tabloid, now reports that a new version of IBM's popular PC may be released within the next month...
...where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung by the French failure to consult them before the agreement and skeptical of the mercurial Libyan's change of heart, they viewed the accord as a French betrayal and a Libyan deception...
...Cleveland Municipal Court. An undercover agent, posing as a car thief, hired Court Bailiff Marvin Bray to offer bribes to judges in exchange for fixing cases. It seemed an effective "sting" when in 1981 six judges were about to be indicted. But it was the FBI that was getting stung. Some of the judges brought to meetings with the undercover agent were impostors, and Bray himself was pocketing the bribe money, totaling more than $100,000. Bray was later convicted, but the FBI was left with egg on its face...
...government forces, and of villagers being denied food supplies as a result of a stringent 18-hour curfew and a ban on transport in and out of the region. The bishops' report, which was given to the government two weeks before it was released publicly last week, stung the Prime Minister. Mugabe, 60, who was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Catholic Kutama Mission, wished the churchmen "success in their prayers," but declared that "the task of running the country belongs to the government...
...like somebody weeping in a darkened the ater long after the movie's ended"), and the effect is corny, but nice, like a good fishing trip. His race-track humor slides in and out of straight-faced paragraphs so deftly you hardly realize you've been stung. The author reports of an unhurried race horse, for instance, that "Sterling Drive broke from the rail, with infinite care, and headed directly for the parking lot, going so wide on the first turn that several fans groaned." The deftness and dryness here, an infinitely careful nag, indeed, is worthy...