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Last fall, a diver on the Stanford women's team, Simone Levant, refused to sign the NCAA drug-testing consent form on the grounds that it violated her rights under the California constitution, said Liz Lempert of the Daily...
...government had been in a quandary. At first there was hope that the Lebanese terrorist suspect would be extradited to the U.S., where he and three others are wanted for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner from Athens to Beirut and the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. But when two West Germans were kidnaped in Beirut a few days after Hamadei's arrest, the government began temporizing. Last week, despite months of U.S. pressure, Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that Hamadei would be tried in Frankfurt...
...announcement, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese traveled to Bonn for consultations. Meese came away satisfied, he said, that there will be no future deal to exchange Hamadei for the kidnaped West Germans. President Reagan repeated those promises in a telephone call to Patricia Stethem, mother of the murdered diver...
...convention of 420 parachutists sponsored by Skydive Arizona, but it quickly turned into a test of nerve, instinct and courage, carried out within seconds. Moments after he went out the open hatch of a four-engine DC-4 airplane at 9,000 ft. near Coolidge, Ariz., Sky Diver Gregory Robertson, 35, could see that Debbie Williams, 31, a fellow parachutist with a modest 50 jumps to her credit, was in big trouble. Instead of "floating" in the proper stretched-out position parallel to the earth, Williams was tumbling like a rag doll. In attempting to join three other divers...
From his instructor's position 40 ft. above the other divers, Robertson reacted with instincts that had been honed by 1,700 jumps during time away from his job as an AT&T engineer in Phoenix. He straightened into a vertical dart, arms pinned to his body, ankles crossed, head aimed at the ground in what chutists call a "no-lift" dive, and plummeted toward Williams at a speed of around 200 m.p.h. The effort was like "trying to catch a football that was flopping down the road at 40 m.p.h.," said Bill Rothe, Williams' fiance, who watched from...