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Kickin' A's The Cincinnati Reds owned first place in their National League division from opening day, but nearly everyone expected they'd lose the World Series to Oakland's high-priced powerhouse club. Then the Reds displayed their blue-collar grit by beating the "better" team in four straight games, pulling off baseball's biggest upset since the Miracle Mets...
...Life Millie, the White House's resident English springer spaniel, earned more advances than any other member of the Bush clan. The First Pooch released her "autobiography," as dictated to Barbara Bush, and then pawed her way past such rival authors as Ronald Reagan toward the top of the best-seller lists...
Christmas seemed to come early in Colombia last week as one of the country's most wanted drug lords turned himself in at a church 14 miles south of Medellin. Fabio ("Fabito") Ochoa Vasquez, 33, was the first chieftain of the so-called Medellin cartel to surrender under the terms of a decree announced by President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo last week. Ochoa is wanted in the U.S. for masterminding the 1986 slaying of federal witness Adler (Barry) Seal in Baton Rouge, La. He is also linked to drug-trafficking activities with former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega...
That proved unwise. First, a group of youths began to stone the strikebreakers; then the violence escalated. An angry mob of 20,000 -- mostly unemployed young people -- went on a rampage. They ransacked and set fire to the five-star Hotel Merenids, torched limousines, looted boutiques and banks. Soon disturbances spread to several other towns, including the capital, Rabat. Some witnesses reported that police fired submachine guns into crowds. Authorities say five people died; union leaders put the toll at more than...
...should have reigned last week among members of the African National Congress as the long-outlawed group held its first conference inside South Africa in 30 years. Instead, rancor erupted as the A.N.C.'s veteran leadership clashed with the younger, hard-line rank and file. President Oliver Tambo, back from three decades of exile, suggested the easing of economic sanctions against South Africa in light of recent reforms, but was voted down. Nelson Mandela, criticized for meeting with government officials without consulting the A.N.C. membership, said his opponents "do not understand the nature of negotiations...