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...only bit of luck Hill would know for the next 17 days. The flight he boarded, along with 144 other passengers, most of them Americans, was TWA 847, which was hijacked shortly after takeoff by two Arab gunmen demanding the release of 700 Shi'ites from Israeli custody. A few days later, as Hill, 57, waited anxiously with seven other American hostages in a house four miles south of Beirut, his keepers, who belonged to Lebanon's Amal militia, brought the prisoners some of the baggage from the plane's hold. "Luckily, my suitcase was among the bags delivered...
...space-based strategic defenses can be reconciled with the quest for deep reductions in strategic offenses remains as much of a conundrum as ever. An American negotiator who is a regular at the ongoing arms-control talks in Geneva remarked, "It's nice to have our bosses wish us luck and urge us to do our best, but the nitty-gritty of our work here is going to be as tough as ever...
...trial for complicity in the 1983 Aquino assassination. Last week the Philippines Supreme Court temporarily forbade a special corruption tribunal to issue a verdict in the case. One military dissident dismissed Marcos' latest effort as "all smoke and mirrors and distraction." Maybe so, but that--and luck--still seem to be working in Marcos' favor. --By George Russell. Reported by Sandra Burton and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
...with funny bits like the recent Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls. There's an archive full of Lists (Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney...
Their return to fleet racing broke the team out of fall doldrums in time for top finishes in the Atlantic Coast Championships—second for the men, and, thanks in part to poor travel luck, sixth for the women...