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...dean of Bates College in Lewiston, Me., was listed in stable condition yesterday after being shot in his campus home by an unknown assailant Monday night...
...students, David Corbett, said he hopes the books would reach universities in Managua. But the exact destination of the donations is unknown, he added...
Next day the Soviet leader faced a few hard times himself as he encountered some of the risks of p.r., Western-style. For the morning's first public event, Gorbachev traveled to the Arc de Triomphe for a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. As the 28-car motorcade moved up the Champs Elysees, the General Secretary raised his hand and gave an occasional wave out of the window of his armor-plated Peugeot 604 limousine. There were precious few people to wave back. For blocks along the route, only a few of the insatiably curious leaned...
Islamic Jihad initially took responsibility for the Soviet kidnapings too. But then anonymous callers claiming to represent the Islamic Liberation Organization, a group previously unknown, told Western news agencies that they were to blame. Within hours, Polaroid photos of the four Soviets, guns held to their heads, were delivered to news organizations. The kidnapers demanded an immediate end to the fighting in Tripoli between Tawheed, a Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist group, and several Syrian-supported militias. The terrorists seemed to be targeting the Soviet Union because it supports Syria with large amounts of military...
...speak badly of the dead, since they're not around to defend themselves? Instead, we let their sancrosant memories be grappled with and protected by biographers, former lovers and marketing geniuses of all types. And the faces of the long gone past gain the mystique of the unknown--what if they had lived on? --and the privilege of never becoming old, decrepit, or friends of Ronald Reagan...