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...result of a voter petition. The big question in Arizona these days is whether the former Pontiac dealer will be removed from office by the state senate, ousted by the voters, convicted on any of six felony indictments in a criminal case, or will simply throw in the towel and resign...
Leaning on the arms of his captors and clasping a towel to his face to protect his emphysema-weakened lungs against the cold, the frail prisoner hardly looked like a man capable of murder. But as he stepped off a train in Paoli, Pa., last week, William Henry Redmond, 66, was walking back through time to face charges in the April 1951 death of Jane Marie Althoff, an eight-year-old ) who had been strangled near a carnival outside Trainer...
News broadcasts also carried frequent updates on the skyrocketing sales of the Touchdown Towel (the natural successor to the Series' Homer Hanky), daily footage of Vikings touching their toes, and shots of players' wives arriving at airports...
Captain Midlife would like to speak with Gorbachev this week. Not about the missiles or Nicaragua -- about middle-agedness. "Mikhail Sergeyevich, don't you feel like throwing in the towel sometimes?" Captain Midlife was watching when Tom Brokaw, another middle-ager, asked, "man to man," what do you think and feel? But Gorbachev could only answer state to man, and the more certain he sounded, the less certain he looked. In middle age the gulf between what you are and who you are is too wide to cross, too -- what? -- extreme. Who knows what turmoil lurks in the hearts...
Martens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, threw in the towel after it became clear that his four-party, bilingual governing coalition was about to dissolve. The issue: what to do about Jose Happart, the acting mayor of Les Fourons, a small French-speaking town in Dutch-speaking Flanders. Happart refuses to take a Dutch-language competency test to prove his compliance with a law requiring that public officials conduct business in the language of ^ their regions. French speakers reject the Flemish court ruling that introduced the competency tests; Dutch speakers want Happart removed from office...