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The hunter: Detective William Majeski, 36, of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct. The hunted: Jack Henry Abbott, 37, ex-con (bank robbery and murder), protege of Norman Mailer, and overnight literary sensation with the publication of his prison memoirs, In the Belly of the Beast. They came into conflict, unseen...
In 1978, after handpicking Aristides Royo, 41, to be a figurehead President, Torrijos started planning for national elections in 1984. But Royo, a former Education Minister, is regarded as too leftist by the general staff of the 10,000-member National Guard, which holds real power in the country. A...
She describes herself as a protege of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and she learned his ruthless style well enough to qualify as probably the toughest woman in American politics -"Attila the Hen," enemies call her. But Jane Byrne is a different sort of mayor. Daley gave Chicago two decades...
The news of Wyszynski's death threw the whole nation into mourning, including, at least publicly, the leaders of the repressive Marxist regime that had once tried to gag him. Even the government press praised the fallen Cardinal as a "great patriot." While thousands of mourners filed past Wyszynski...
Coppola has always dreamed big about the movies. As a young man he went to Las Vegas to win enough money to buy a movie camera. In the early '70s he gambled successfully with Oscar-winning Godfathers, and then parlayed his work into a nine-hour TV mini-series...