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...Mets know they're still in a pennant race? Monday night at Shea Stadium, the Metsies were hosting the first-place Cubs in a key pennant race game. With the Mets losing in the ninth inning, Darryl Strawberry and Kevin McReynolds decided to watch the rest of the game from the locker room...
...President of West Germany, he was a 19-year-old private with the Ninth Infantry Regiment in Potsdam when war came. In 1949, Von Weizsacker's father was convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg and sentenced to seven years in jail; his sentence was commuted...
...Bulgarian government claims that the country's 1 million ethnic Turks -- one-ninth of the total population -- are descendants of Slavs converted to Islam under the Ottomans, who ruled from the late 14th century to the late 19th century, and it wants them to revert to their origins. But the Turkish minority regards itself as a remnant of the Ottoman Empire. "Our ancestors settled in Bulgaria when it was the empire's Balkan province," explains Huseyin Hafizoglu, 60, a schoolteacher whose home was near Plovdiv. "My family has been there for more than a century. But our country is still...
What is atop the summit if Foreman manages to conquer it again? Money? "A lot of it," Foreman acknowledges. Not for lavish houses in California, or Mercedes and Corvettes. Foreman has had those. "For the kids," he explains. "I want to give them the same shot I had." The ninth-grade dropout got his rebirth in the Job Corps. Since 1984, he's dispensed his own good deeds at the George Foreman Youth and Community Center on Houston's north side. The small gym with its boxing ring and exercise gear is an after-school haven for 400 youths, some...
...more than a week, the 576 passengers aboard the Soviet cruise liner Maxim % Gorky had been sailing through the North Atlantic near Iceland, marveling at the dramatic Arctic scenery. Just after midnight on their ninth day out -- it was foggy, yet still light in the land of the midnight sun -- the 25,000-ton ship struck a partly submerged ice floe. Three gashes opened in the starboard forward hull below the waterline, one of them 18 ft. long...