Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back together, but without much success. His girlfriend during the campaign, the first woman he had been close to since college, decides to marry her old boyfriend. He feels alienated from his contemporaries in Richmond, and so leaves. As the novel ends, he finally falls asleep on a northbound train...
...wanted him as a sales representative-"someone with a name to sell their product," he says-but he chose instead to join the Denver Broncos professional football team. Lytle, who just married his high school sweetheart last Friday, reports to camp this week in Fort Collins, Colo., to train as a running back. An education major who took lots of business courses on the side, Lytle is looking beyond football to a second career. He hopes eventually to go into partnership with his father in the family business, a men's clothing store in his native Freemont, Ohio, named...
Hostages on the train, meanwhile, were treated far more harshly. In a brutal display of their serious intent, Moluccans thrust bound and blindfolded captives outside the train with ropes around their necks and then hauled them back on board...
Creating Trouble. The kidnapers were South Moluccan rebels with a history of creating trouble in The Netherlands. In December 1975 another group of terrorists seized the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam and a train on the Utrecht-Groningen rail line (TIME, Dec. 15, 1975). Before that 15-day ordeal ended with the surrender of 14 Moluccans, three train passengers had been executed and a fourth hostage fell to his death from a consulate window...
Last week's well-coordinated assaults on the train and the Bovensmilde school took place two days before a national election in which the principal contestants were Prime Minister loop den Uyl's Socialists and Justice Minister Andreas Van Agt's Christian Democrats. The Moluccans apparently hoped to force the candidates into making concessions to them in order to win voter approval. Despite the country's grim mood, the record 87% of the voters who turned out made decisions on broader issues; they gave Den Uyl's party 53 seats in the new 150-member...