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...just a maniac for the sport," she says. "I couldn't get enough." After she was hooked, though, the problem was getting enough money. Until this season she had to scratch as much as $4,000 together each year for equipment and travel. "One night I slept in a closet. I only had $20 in my pocket," she says. Warner will probably not have a medal either. Maybe by 1988, the 21-year-old hopes...
...While Reagan Slept, Buchwald...
...rumors turned into fact. At 5:30 a.m., as the city slept, Syrian artillery shells slammed into the refugee camps of Baddawi and Nahr al Barid on the outskirts of Tripoli. Three columns of attackers advanced on Arafat's forces, trapping the chairman and his men between the hills and the sea. The rebels included not only Fatah dissidents but guerrillas from Syrian-and Libyan-sponsored factions within the P.L.O. Though Damascus denied direct involvement, Syrian guns and tanks supplied the firepower while Syrian Defense Minister Major General Mustafa Tlas coordinated strategy with Abu Mousa...
...difficult Charles Lee Brown had ever confronted during a 37-year career with the telephone company. Yet on the night the AT&T chairman made up his mind not to fight the Justice Department's plan to break up the Bell System, he squelched all second thoughts and slept soundly. "If I worried after a decision," he says, "I'd be a basket case, and I don't do that." Armed with such self-assurance, Brown, 62, has for nearly two years calmly dealt with criticism, fears and confusion among customers, employees, share holders and Congressmen while...
Back at the airport in Barbados, one sweltering day last week, Air Force Captain Keith Graham leaned across the counter before him. He was wearing camouflage fatigues that looked as though he had slept in them. In his best parade-ground voice, Graham bellowed, "Anybody want to go to Grenada?" An old Barbadian woman who was trying to sweep up the debris of pizza crusts and paper cups gave Graham a toothless smile, but she offered no answer...