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While attempting to track down rumors about the formation of a new student publication this week, one reporter apparently got waylaid by agents of an old one. After contacting two of the magazine's supposed representatives, she was informed that the students intended to publish on a daily basis. Further inquiries elicited the information that the new group was funded by none other than Richard Nixon and the Committee to Re-elect the President...
...cubs finally fell victim to deadlier animals -- men armed with assault rifles. Adamson, 83, and two of his assistants were shot to death last week when he drove his Land Rover straight at three bandits in an attempt to rescue another employee and a woman guest who had been waylaid near his bush camp in northeastern Kenya. By midweek, police had seized three suspects...
...incident was a terrifyingly familiar episode in Sri Lanka's bloody four- year-old civil war -- except for its gruesome magnitude. Last week separatist Tamil rebels, who are fighting for an independent homeland in Northern and Eastern provinces, waylaid six vehicles with mostly Sinhalese holidaymakers returning home from celebrating the Sri Lankan New Year. The rebels dragged passengers, including women and children, from the buses and trucks, then mowed them down with machine-gun fire. When the shooting stopped, at least 126 travelers lay dead on the jungle roadside. The violence prompted the government to terminate a cease-fire with...
...were armed escorts from Amal and from another Lebanese faction, the Druze. Also in the caravan were representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian army officers and security agents, which helped emphasize the pivotal role Syria had played in arranging the release of the long-waylaid passengers and crew of TWA Flight...
...innocence, Ver charged that the majority report's conclusions were "farfetched" and "no better I than a series of inductive arguments"; he demanded a separate and immediate trial. The embattled suspects did their best to turn the Agravatars' own strength against them. "The board has been waylaid by the enemies of the state," charged Olivas. Ver accused the panel of being "a tool to destroy the protectors of the republic...