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...sent home. "Callan," upon investigation, proved to be Costas Georgiou, 25, a Greek-Cypriot immigrant and former British paratrooper who had been cashiered from the service for robbing a post office. After being released from prison last year, Georgiou went to Angola, where he wound up in command of the F.N.L.A. mercenary forces...
...agostino was in command and had the lead in riding time, so all he had to do was hold on for a 7-6 win. His raging opponent escaped, though, and then charged in for a takedown that gave him the victory and his team an insurmountable 21-10 lead...
...with the Anatomy of Criticism, which outlined the science of literary criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture-style, roaming up and down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors. His reliance on a notion of "some poets...
Although Harvard led by only 10-6 after those two events, the Crimson had the momentum and was completely in command. "I thought Canales coming in second in the 1000 was the key to the meet," Crimson coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "After that I knew...
Crucial Week. At the same time, the uneasy alliance between the F.N.L.A. and UNITA was close to collapse. For the second time in less than a week, F.N.L.A. forces under UNITA command in the south refused to go to the front. The result was a bloody Shootout between the two factions in Huambo. UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi admitted to TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand after a tour of UNlTA's central front last week that the next week or two will be crucial to his cause. If the M.P.L.A. makes greater gains, Savimbi said he is planning to return...