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...Fonda sets out to claim credit and royalties for his creation, and is falsely accused of wounding the thief in a scuffle over the matter. He then falls in with Tina (Susan Saint James), who has learned most of the music business's sharper angles as an underpaid back-up singer and who dreams up a neatly ironic scheme to get Fonda...
Most of the city's 17 hospitals switched smoothly to emergency generators. But Bellevue's back-up system failed, and doctors and nurses had to squeeze bags of air with their hands to keep several patients alive until resuscitators could be turned on again. When back-up generators broke down at Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital and Medical Center, about 100 people had their wounds?mostly cuts from knives and broken glass?cleaned and stitched at a makeshift field hospital set up in the parking lot under high-intensity spotlights powered by fire-department equipment...
...particularly hard hit. The major snafu was in getting wire service copy. A.P. officials say that the blackout caused about a 1½hr. delay in moving copy, but in a number of cities the wait was considerably longer. U.P.I, was not even that lucky. Without A.P.'s back-up system of regional computers, U.P.I, had to dictate its New York stories by phone. U.P.I, could not resume normal operations until 6 p.m. the next...
...Conversely, there is the problem of how the handicapped children, taken from their familiar protected environment, will be affected. Says Connor: "I'm sure that one-third will flower, but another one-third may do just about the same, and the last third may actually suffer without adequate back-up services...
...rebel retreat, from within 20 miles of the copper-mining center of Kolwezi, had started even before the government "offensive." As they probed slowly westward, with Moroccans providing back-up support and removing antipersonnel mines from the dirt tracks en route, Zaïrian forces encountered practically no resistance. There was not a single major firefight and hardly a contact of any kind. "This isn't a war," one bored Moroccan officer confided. "It is a matter of making armed reconnaissance and then retaking ground without a fight. To call it a war is a joke...