Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clever, hunky, athletic law student. Make that was. For Allan is hit by a truck and wakes up a quadriplegic. He is told to look on the bright side: "You'll get all the best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow) is a mad scientist of the cybernetic...
Though pedaling 80 miles a day on hilly New England roads may not seem especially restful, the popularity of bicycle vacations is soaring. Vermont Country Cyclers, founded in 1980, has been growing between 30% and 40% a year. Travelers can ride for a day or a week, with a van driving along behind to carry luggage and give a lift to the lagging. "Someone once described it as credit-card camping," says Feldman, who is planning a trip this month with a rival outfit, Vermont Bicycle Touring. "You get to go out and see everything, then eat the gourmet food...
Senior Correspondents: Mary Cronin, Murray J. Gart (Special Projects); Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst...
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Mandela's continued imprisonment poses a dilemma for Pretoria, which fears that his release could set off widespread black unrest. "Humanitarian considerations must always be weighed against the possibility that civil uprising, violence and terrorism could follow," said Information Minister Stoffel van der Merwe. At least one progovernment voice disagreed. Asked Beeld, the country's largest Afrikaans-language daily: "Do we really want to imprint into our history that we let an old man die in jail while there was the opportunity to negotiate with him on the aspirations of his people...