Word: tor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the years of exile, Rolf said, the Mengele family sent the doc- tor between $100 and $175 a month. The old man's diaries suggested that he might have supplemented those funds by arranging modest real estate deals. Yet his father's poverty, Rolf told Bunte, ironically may have provided his protection; after all, Mengele hunters "looked for him in a white villa on the sea, in the back of a Mercedes, behind bodyguards and guarded by German shepherds." They did not guess, ventured Rolf, that the runaway Nazi might be living in penury in a ramshackle hut. Thinking...
...Soviet armored personnel carrier, loaded with infantrymen and flying a white flag, rolled up to the Pakistani frontier post of Tor Kham from the Afghanistan side of the border. It was the climactic moment of a battle that had begun after Afghanistan's mujahedin resistance fighters attacked and briefly held three Afghan border posts on the Khyber Pass. The Soviets had reacted with lightning speed, sending in a full brigade by air to retake the outposts. In the confusion of battle, three soldiers of the Soviet-backed Afghan army fled to Pakistan, but their defection had been detected...
...smoker like Jim Fixx could transform himself into a sleek, 160-lb. marathoner, then anyone could do it. Fixx's 1977 best seller, The Complete Book of Running, converted the masses with rhapsodic sermons on the physical and psychological benefits of his sport. "The most important single indica tor of overall health is cardiovascular endurance, which is what running develops," he wrote. Thus there was irony mixed with tragedy when Fixx died this month at 52 from a heart attack while pounding the road in Vermont. Last week his legions of disciples around the country were suddenly running scared...
...Norway, who finished third behind East Germany and Poland in its qualifying tournament. But after those two teams joined the boycott, Norway was invited to participate. This has given the team only about six weeks to practice together and two exhibition games to prepare for the Olympics. But coach Tor Roeste Fossen says his players are in top shape from the ongoing Norwegian season and are ready to play...
...power or privilege, or even, in some cases, criminal actions." He charges that "abuse of Government has become a way of life in this Administration, yet it seems to concern no one very much - not even the President. It should." Walter Mondale last week spoke of the "sleaze fac tor" in the Administration...