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Clark Gillies of the New York Islanders scored the lone Canadian marker...
...collapse because of Washington's attitude," said a senior West German official. "South Africa is conducting an invasion, an act of aggression, and we feel the U.S. should have the courage to condemn it," said a French diplomat. The trigger for the complaints: the U.S.'s lone vote in the U.N. Security Council last week against condemning South Africa's massive search-and-destroy mission in Angola. The assault was aimed at guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), who are fighting for the independence of Namibia, a territory administered by South Africa...
...Lone Grove, Okla...
...takes him to a bunch of tony vacation spots (the Dolomites, Corfu, Spain, Albania, Moscow in winter). Once again the fate of the world is threatened by-what is it this time?-a nuclear-sub tracking system that has fallen into enemy hands, and can be saved by one lone agent working for an empire over which the sun set long...
Through five bestsellers, four films and two television series, Joseph Wambaugh's characters have altered America's view of its police. His Los Angeles officers are neither the lone-eagle heroes of reactionary fantasy nor fascist mercenaries cracking the skulls of the innocent. They are, instead, ordinary, besieged working men and women whose lives are presented with war-zone humor, lively plots and a refreshing lack of night-school sociology. In Wambaugh's newest novel, those servants have grown a little less civil, and the quiet desperation of their lives has moved up several decibel levels...