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...DIED. Yang Sun Nyo, 66, mother of South Korean Lightweight Boxer Kim Duk Koo, who died after a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini last November; by her own hand (she drank a bottle of pesticide) after becoming despondent following her son's death; in Kojin, South Korea...
TIME staffers around the country put in equally long days. Boston Correspondent John Yang stood outside an old-fashioned red-brick schoolhouse in Fall River, Mass., conducting a "decidedly unscientific" poll that proved to be highly accurate. That evening Boston Correspondent Joelle Attinger saw Connecticut Senate Candidate Toby Moffett transformed within hours from "an eerily calm" fellow telling fishing stories into a crushed politician whose voice repeatedly broke as he conceded defeat. And Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis was attending a sumptuous bash for an overconfident Texas Governor Bill Clements, when the victory party suddenly turned into a wake. Allis...
Reaction in California to the board's decision ranged from disappointment to outrage. Said California Savings and Loan Commissioner Linda Tsao Yang: "The decision is a tragedy. The entire bidding process was little more than a predetermined effort to legitimize the sale of Fidelity to Citicorp...
...near the border between China and Burma. He marries and fathers a daughter before news of World War II belatedly reaches him, driving him from his remote adopted home to join the U.S. Army and the larger struggle. In 1949, back in the U.S., he receives a letter from Yang Yulin, a wartime comrade who is now a general in the Chinese Nationalist army. Yang has got hold of an anthropological treasure, the bones of Peking Man. He will flee the advancing Communist troops and turn over the relics to Greenwood. They must meet at Pawlu...
Thus begins an absolutely ripping adventure. Author Stephen Becker, 55, keeps the action fast and the background crammed with details. He meticulously evokes the rhythms of village life, the rituals of a people cut off from the rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a threat to that secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels...