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...happens that Larry Holmes is the undefeated heavyweight champion of the known (nonmovie) world, Gerry Cooney is the unbeaten No. 1 contender with an unknown wallop, and they are fighting each other this Friday night in a small ring out behind a large gambling lor for $20 million. Including ancillary payoffs, there may be as much as $50 million involved all around. The eyes of 32,000 people will glisten in the ring lights, and the blood of 2.5 million others will heat up in closed-circuit theaters, and much of the country, and some of the world, will...
...sent fighting men to Iraq but acknowledged that "there may have been some Egyptian volunteers." Mubarak warned Iran against crossing the border into Iraq. He also declared that a forced change of governments in Baghdad would "not serve the interests of the region because it would lead to the unknown, possibly bringing a political leadership that would not help the purpose of peace in the area...
Reflecting the restive national mood, the Experience and Future Group, an unofficial forum of intellectuals and liberal Communist Party members, sent a 67-page paper to General Wojciech Jaruzelski assessing military rule. Labeling martial law "an alien and unknown act in Polish traditions," the document called on the authorities to form a genuine partnership with society. Concluded the report: "After 100 days of martial law, it is evident that what happened between August 1980 and December 1981 cannot be erased from human memory and from the life of society." The newswalkers of Swidnik and millions of Poles like them seem...
...pagos variety, such as giant worms, but other oddities: several species of snails, worms, clams and a jellyfish. Some are so novel that they defy the taxonomic abilities of the biologists aboard the expedition's mother ship, Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Among these unknown wonders: white eellike fish that hover around the scorching vents. For lack of a better name, the scientists have labeled them "21-degree-north vent fish" (after the latitude of the site). Researchers believe the vent fish may be the first vertebrate discovered whose existence does not ultimately depend upon sunlight...
DIED. Lester Bangs, 33, influential, hard-living rock critic whose reviews for Rolling Stone and Creem magazines and the Village Voice reflected and refracted the raw vitality of latter-day rock 'n' roll; of unknown causes; in New York City...