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...before the Vietnamese landed in Thailand. Several other boatloads were so desperate for safety that they forcibly boarded an oil-rig tugboat about 170 miles east of Malaysia. Still another 42 Vietnamese scuttled their craft just off the Malaysian shore, swimming the remaining distance so that authorities could not tow them back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Barring the Boat People | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...time of possession advantage in Yale's favor was typical of the scenario that led up to a defensive lapse, a product of overwork that left Bruin Frank Boucher alone in the endzone or Eli Bob Krystyniak trotting downfield with no defender in tow...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: The Game: Not Quite Enough Is Common Theme | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...crazed over his inability to win redress or even acknowledgment of what he regards as murder. But he is rich, a skillful sailor and a brilliant technician. In another boat, a 38-ft. sloop he renames Carolyn, equipped with radar of his own invention and a purloined U.S. antitank TOW missile, Hardin sails off to stalk and destroy the black Moby Dick. Symbolically, his shipmate is also black, a physician, as was his wife, a young woman who had pulled him from an English beach and back to health, if not sanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...sect. The two young Americans were out on bail, appealing a conviction for stabbing an Indian embassy official. Korchnoi struck up a friendship with the saffron-robed duo, who prescribed yoga exercises, including headstands, as a remedy for his tension. Back in Baguio City, with the yoga experts in tow, Korchnoi mounted a surprising offensive, winning four of the next 14 games, to even the score at five games apiece. Karpov's aides demanded that the "terrorist-criminals" be expelled from the city, and match officials complied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Checkmate in Baguio City | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...pyramid in Egypt, to which the lovers have raced their steeds across the desert sands and then struggled upwards, step-by-step. Finally the lucky couple ditch her in the streets of an unidentified Egyptian city, and board, and board their cruise down the Nile, servent in tow...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

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