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...bounced back to the front pages with a new twist -- a charge by Calvert and a friend, city employee Michael Thomas, 32, that a special secret police unit had been digging into Calvert's private life. After Thomas claimed that a police inspector questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January, filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which...
...bull rhinoceros crashes out of the undergrowth in a full thundering charge. "Here, Macho," Bentsen calls. "How 'bout an apple for breakfast?" The massive beast puts on the brakes just short of a six-bar iron fence that separates man and animal. With a deft twist of his heavy, pointed lips, Macho plucks a slice of apple from Bentsen's hand. Bentsen reaches through the bars to scratch the leathery muzzle. Rhinos are slow-witted, almost childlike creatures that when startled tend to charge first and ask questions later. But once it knows your voice, a captive rhino...
Gorbachev also has the satisfaction of knowing that he has re-established the pre-eminence of the top man in the Kremlin as the leader of world Communism -- but with a twist. He is now the leader of the Communist reformation. It is as though Martin Luther had returned in triumph to Rome to be installed as Pope...
...Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate and collect $100,000 in life insurance. At the same time, they said it was also possible that the other sailor, Gunner's Mate...
Such forebodings have caused Hong Kong to react sharply to each twist and turn in the power struggle next door. The Hang Seng index, the main indicator of value of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, swung wildly throughout the week. After dropping nearly 11% on Monday, the index rose 9.3% the next day on signs that the Chinese crisis might be easing. But the continued unrest in China led to further whipsawing that left the index at 2765.67 when trading ended Friday, down a substantial 12% for the week...