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...morning literally not knowing how or whether they will eat that night. In Four Rupees, a man is offered the job of recovering a treasured brass pot that has fallen down a well. He is horrified at the prospect of shinnying down 60 ft. into the unknown. Nevertheless, he succeeds. When he proudly brings his wages home, his wife looks at his disheveled state and decides he has robbed someone for the money. A similar outcome awaits the hero of A Horse and Two Goats. An old man, who daily pastures the two scraggly remnants of a once expansive flock...
Speaking careers can be catapulted into orbit at the I.P.A. convention. Last year's amateur winner, Joe Schwartz, 74, of North Hollywood, Calif., now lectures for $1,000 a shot. on how to beat retirement. The exiled monarch of Tunisia, King Rechad al-Mahdi, 38, was virtually unknown when he spoke soporifically about the need for a constitutional monarchy two years ago. But an enterprising agent now gets him $2,500 for a lecture called "A Royal Saga." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington
...Fidel Castro confirmed a news report that his country was Vesco's latest host. But Castro ridiculed speculation that the fugitive American financier was being held against his will. Castro told a news conference in Havana that Vesco arrived in Cuba three years ago seeking medical treatment for an unknown ailment. He is wanted in the U.S. in connection with a $224 million fraud case involving Investors Overseas Services Ltd. and for allegedly making an illegal contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential reelection campaign...
...machine. At a preassigned time, the logic bomb suddenly went off and maliciously froze the utility's internal files. Work came to a standstill until a team of experts, including the Los Angeles police department's newly formed computer crime unit, was able to uncover the subversive coding. The unknown criminal, who could face five years in the California state penitentiary and a $10,000 fine, is still at large...
Much of the dubiousness can be laid to misgivings about the two main players in Geneva and their willingness to strive seriously for an arms-control agreement. Despite a flurry of artfully crafted public appearances, Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev remains an unknown quantity to the American public. Some 93% of the survey group admitted knowing little or nothing about the new Soviet leader; 47% of those who know at least something about Gorbachev suspect that he cannot be counted upon to honor his end of a bargain. Gorbachev's public relations efforts and his youth (by past Politburo standards) notwithstanding...