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...awesome size and speed -- he can run 40 yds. in 4.46 sec. -- Okoye, 28, ran for 131 yds. and scored a touchdown to keep his league lead in rushing (1,322 yds.), and set a team record for the most yards gained in a season. For the fifth time this year he carried the ball more than 30 times. Small wonder that Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium blooms these days with banners proclaiming OKOYE COUNTRY. Thanks in large part to Okoye's heroics, the 7-6-1 Chiefs have a shot at the play-offs that begin Dec. 31. "That...
Three attorneys visited at a specified time last month. "We had tried to arrange our own date, but we were told that he was a busy man," says Keith Kunene, head of the Black Lawyers' Association. Mandela gave them a tour that included a room where he gets a weekly medical exam, a modest gym and a small outdoor swimming pool. He is permitted a TV and radio but not a shortwave receiver, which would pick up foreign broadcasts. Before talking politics, he hinted that the parlor might be bugged and asked Swart to bring some Cokes. Later Swart served...
Signs are they haven't done so. Despite a $585 million high-tech makeover for the Postal Service over the past two years, the odds have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour...
...police being summoned to a San Diego suburb to settle one of the nearly daily disputes over the load in each carrier's bag. A study showed that 45% of the 837 carrier routes in San Diego require more than an eight-hour shift to complete. Taking time off for surgery or unapproved nose blowing is a punishable act. "There's a rule for everything," testified a San Diego shop steward. "If a supervisor wants...
...CREDIT: TIME Chart by Joe Lertola...