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...have been, as Anwar Sadat would have believed, the hand of fate that brutally tore him from the world stage. That same hand narrowly bypassed Sadat's most attentive pupil and long-chosen successor, who was at the President's side when the bullets slammed into the reviewing stand. Hosni Mubarak, 53, Egypt's Vice President since Sadat picked him for the post in 1975, emerged from the assault with no more than a bandaged left hand as a memento of his narrow escape...
...late, they realized they had been tricked. A green van suddenly shot out of the clinic and tore down the hill at high speed. Inside was one of the most famous convicted spies in Europe: Günter Guillaume, 54, whose espionage in high places brought about the fall of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt...
Senior split end Dirk Killen is a questionable starter for the 34th meeting of Harvard and Army tomorrow at Soldiers Field. Killen tore a muscle inside his rib cage last Saturday during Harvard's 33-19 loss to Holy Cross, an injury similar to the one that has sidelined wide receiver Paul Scheper since the first half of the Columbia game two weeks...
...morning last month, nearly 2,000 miners marched up to the chain-link security fence surrounding Kerr-McGee's site and tore down more than two miles of it with their bare hands. Security guards and hastily summoned state police were showered with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Construction equipment was torched and grass fires set. As smoke swirled around them, police fired tear gas from grenade launchers. When that did not work, National Guard helicopters were called in to dispense more tear gas. While the battle raged at the mine site, the single-story frame house in Galatia that...
...their votes. "I kept hearing 'Beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt,' " said Suzanne Sheldon, the writer, who had originally voted for conviction. "And I kept seeing that kid Charles looking up at me from the defendant's table with his big blue eyes. It tore me apart." The jurors sent out for sandwiches, and took a written ballot at 8:30 p.m. No more undecideds. Eight votes to acquit, four to convict. One of the four, Pat Sweeney, the other assistant principal, said she had put a lot of weight on the youth...