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Another violent showdown may be near. Last week National Awami Leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan demanded that Bhutto reinstate the governors. "We will take these rights by force if they are not conceded by will," he told a huge angry crowd in Peshawar. Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, the ousted Baluchistan governor, called on the National Assembly to halt the military's interference: "I would like to inform the public that the army action will destroy the unity of what remains of Pakistan forever," he said. Even Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party was divided. The P.P.P. governor...
...Wooden is, in fact, currently graced with 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, the best center in college basketball. And before Walton, U.C.L.A. had Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft. 2-in. pivotman who led the Bruins to three national titles, then turned pro and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yet it is also a fact that Wooden won his first N.C.A.A. championship in 1964 with a starting team whose average height was a pygmyesque 6 ft. 3 in. "No one can win without material," says Wooden. "But not everyone can win with material...
...have Wooden's teams, both tiny and tall, lost only 15 of 281 over the past decade? Former U.C.L.A. players who have graduated to the pros cite various reasons. Milwaukee Bucks' Abdul-Jabbar: "His ability to coach and develop talent is unparalleled." Los Angeles Lakers' Gail Goodrich: "He molds five different personalities into one." Milwaukee's Lucius Allen: "He takes basketball and breaks it into all the little fundamentals." Los Angeles' Keith Erickson: "He's the kind of man you believe in, a man you would like...
...reaction in the Arab world was undisguised rejoicing. "Despite Zionist terrorism, the Palestinians are still able to present their cause to the world," crowed the Cairo newspaper Al-Gumhouria. When the Lufthansa jet landed in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the three rescued Black Septemberists aboard-Sammar Abdullah, Abdul Kader Dannawi and Ibrahim Badran -were welcomed like conquering princes...
...mission in life is to immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things up. To reveal more would be unfair. Significantly, both little boys love to hear Edwin's father recite Abdul, the Bulbul Amir, but Father can never remember how the poem ends...