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They sat at four tables next to where I was draining the dregs of a coffee cup. Aware that I might be thrown out if the guards decided I was a journalist, I remained silent as the hostages took in their surroundings -- a blue pool sparkling with underwater lighting, deck chairs drawn up in regiments and a moon rising over the Mediterranean...
...dreams of officials at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology come true, and Perot, 54, agress to pay for the use of some of the museum's artifacts (See main story), it will not be the first time Perot has thrown vast sums into academia...
...press conference last week, he had to endure that humbling American ritual of reminder. His 1980 campaign contempt for Carter's failure to win an early release of the U.S. hostages held in Iran ("They shouldn't have been there six days, let alone six months") was thrown back at him as the world watched. He was chastened. But one of Reagan's strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully...
...more than $100 million. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles also faces claims over Father David Roemer, who pleaded no contest in three cases of child molesting in 1981. But a New Jersey family whose son killed himself after he was allegedly molested by a Franciscan brother had its suit thrown out. The victim was a participant in youth ministries, and a state law exempts organizations like the Archdiocese of Newark from damage suits by those who use and benefit from its services...
...letters or identity papers?" asked French Nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld, referring to the documents found in the home of the Bosserts as well as in Sedlmeier's. Why had the Mengele family not announced Josef's death six years ago, and so freed itself of all the negative publicity thrown up by the case? What about the many sightings over the years of Mengele in Paraguay, even as recently as last summer? And why had the Bosserts taken up with an infamous mass murderer in the first place? "If the Bossert account is true," said West German Mengele Researcher Otmar...