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Throughout, Crouse tries to find out what makes them tick--in one man, it is the grim resolve to efface with furious work the memory of the sudden death of wife and children. In another, it is his Pheidippides-like determination to sprint to pay telephones and deliver his story before fainting...
...help make a Middle East settlement possible. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal responded to the urgings of militant Arab leaders and curtailed oil shipments to nations that the Arabs deemed too friendly with Israel. The immediate impact was devastating. The long-term repercussions could prove beneficial, however, as a grim reminder that industrialized nations have for too long wasted energy and recklessly failed to develop alternate sources...
Forensic specialists confirmed that the ear was Paul's. The grim evidence apparently also convinced the elder Getty, who until then had adamantly refused to give any ransom. In the end, he reportedly sent his personal emissary, a former CIA man, to negotiate the ransom and release. The payoff was estimated to be $2.8 million, considerably less than the $17 million originally demanded. Young Getty was saying little publicly about his experience last week. As his mother, former Actress Gail Harris, said shortly before his release, "He will need time to learn to believe in love and affection once...
Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
Even everyone on Section 18 agreed that for their tastes Sunderland's portrayal of the "Grim Reaper" was just too frighteningly real as he whisked his sickle through the crowd, indiscriminately lopping off noses and ears and whatever other chaff was unlucky enough to be poking up above bleacher level...