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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNKNOWN ACTOR scurries across a northern California beach. He's playing Jack Kerouac. But this supposedly athletic-looking Beatnik writer is thin and clumsy. He ends up ditching the beach after narrowly escaping a mound of dirt that plummets into the ocean...
...mother's blood. The number of cases so far is very small, about 130 (some 180 children in the U.S. have the disease), but unhappily it is likely to increase. More parents are sure to be exposed to the virus, and a possibly large percentage, who for some unknown reason never develop symptoms, can unwittingly pass the virus to their children. (Both women and men who are not victims of AIDS can be carriers...
...been safe for him to stay in place, British intelligence certainly would have wanted him to do so. Moreover, Gordievsky, described as a man deeply attached to his family, defected while his wife and children were still on summer vacation in the Soviet Union. Gordievsky's whereabouts were unknown last week, but it was believed that he was being debriefed at a safe house outside London...
...Whether in reaction to the paroxysms of hero worship that accompanied Maoism or perhaps out of a personal sense of propriety, Deng Xiaoping has actively discouraged a personality cult for himself. His portrait does not adorn government offices, and his ancestral home in Sichuan, though well maintained, is virtually unknown to Chinese citizens. Still, the man and the "revolution" are inseparable, and Deng's personal popularity appears to be on the increase. At the time of his 81st birthday last month, the Chinese press published a freshly written song in his honor. After twice repeating the words "Xiaoping, hello...
...Sept. 26, 1983, the 12-meter yacht Australia II crossed the finish line off Newport, R.I., capturing the America's Cup and ending 132 years of U.S. sailing supremacy. Americans were astonished when John Bertrand, an unknown naval engineer, steered his boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel...