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...Abul Abbas Zaidan, Abu Khaled. He has been an ally and enemy of Syria's, a colleague and critic--simultaneously--of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat's. Until a few weeks ago he was one of the more obscure leaders within the fragmented P.L.O., a member of its ten-man executive committee but directly in charge of only a splinter of a splinter, with perhaps fewer than 100 hard-core followers. His supposed allies openly deride Washington's characterization of him as a terrorist mastermind. Says one P.L.O. official in Tunis: "Abbas is a would-be Palestinian Rambo...
...forward pass was the brainchild of Walter Camp, the great Yale football figure. In the era of the ten-man line and the flying wedge, Camp wanted to open up the game...
...sure he is a genius"), is supremely confident that he will make it big in show business, whether through television, motion pictures, or even pop music. He is currently writing a horror movie script that will be both a comedy and a musical, and is forming his own ten-man band, featuring himself as lead singer...
...very model of military rectitude. Sitting straight as a dagger behind his steel desk, hands clasped in front of him and mustache neatly trimmed, Sergeant José Antonio Rivas explains that he is the "maximum authority" in Metalio, a Salvadoran seaside village of 6,000. Several members of his ten-man army unit listen, fingering their weapons, as Rivas boasts that Metalio remains untouched by his country's cyclones of violence. "This is a very peaceful place," he says with a smile, his gold-capped teeth glinting in the light. "We treat the civilian population well...
...biggest advantage is probably that we didn't know anything about the industry when we started. We scoured the world for the best technology." After the plant was built, Chaparral continued to send out employees in search of new production techniques. Last year the company exchanged a ten-man steel-melting crew for a similar group from a Japanese firm. For five weeks the Chaparral team studied the fine points of Japanese steelmaking. Says Gordon Forward, the company's president: "We want to beat them at their own productivity game...