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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...remote road, the certainty of discovery, the deaths of their comrades and the need to get the burn victims to hospitals all forced a difficult decision: the Americans had to leave the desert immediately. There was no time to let the aircraft wreckage cool to recover the bodies. Instead, the rescuers had to rescue themselves. They climbed into the remaining C-130s and took...
Four years ago, Jimmy Carter virtually clinched the Democratic presidential nomination by winning the Pennsylvania primary. Last week the state's Democrats took another look at him and, by a narrow 10,000-ballot margin, voted instead for Senator Edward Kennedy. At the same time, Ronald Reagan stumbled in Pennsylvania's Republican primary, losing the popular vote to former CIA Director George Bush by 54% to 45%. It was Bush's first major primary victory and, to him, the message was clear. Said he: "A lot of people are unhappy with those who are deemed...
Presumably, Castro also decided that the evacuation would turn world attention away from the Peruvian embassy fiasco and focus the spotlight instead on Washington's scramble to cope with the flood of refugees. In this, Castro appeared to be successful. "He sure is clever at making his problem our problem," said one White House aide...
...year's best offerings in 34 categories, including self-help and scifi. The prizes are broader than the venerable National Book Awards they replace, and the presentations will be made with more hoopla. Some wits have suggested that the new prize be called the Bookie. It was named instead after Sculptress Louise Nevelson, 80, who designed the plaque that goes to each winner, along with $1,000. How does she feel about joining Oscar, Tony and the rest? Says Nevelson: "That suits me fine...
...Ormandy is relinquishing a post, he is scarcely retiring. "I never fished in my life," he says. "And I hate golf-hit little balls and run after them. No, not for me." Instead, he will continue to do what he has done for nearly 60 years: conduct. Some observers of late have sensed a faltering of Ormandy's command on the podium, perhaps a dimming of his legendary memory for scores. But he insists that he feels young and fit; and, indeed, his gaze remains keen, his step springy and his stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) frame as muscular...