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...Jagger curled his famous lips into a smile and ducked the question. The Rolling Stones, he said, "will probably be making albums until we enter some sort of future senior citizens' facility." This month the Stones begin a 38-city tour of the States to back Tattoo You, their 27th release in 19 years. No one is laughing at Jagger's prediction...
...Texas, the Democratic-controlled state senate drafted a plan that would concede two of the three new seats to the G.O.P. but would also create a dragon-shaped 27th Congressional District around Austin that would be solidly Democratic. Republican Governor William Clements promptly vetoed it. Texas Republicans, meanwhile, cut a deal with black and Hispanic Democrats that would turn two mostly white Democratic seats in the Dallas area into a heavily black Democratic district and a largely white Republican district. Indeed, though all 17 black members of Congress have lost constituents since 1970, nearly all are expected to survive redistricting...
...news was distressingly familiar. A poor, black youth had been found strangled to death near an intersection of Interstate 20, just outside Atlanta. William Barrett, 17, a ne'er-do-well with a police record for burglary, had been reported missing only hours before he became the 27th known victim in the string of murders that has plagued the Georgia capital since 1979 and left investigators thoroughly baffled...
...Regarding the March 27 massacre, Anne Nelson states that American church people doing relief work in El Salvador verify that "something" happened that day. However, she won't reveal their names and organization in order to protect them. Sister Jeanne Gallo also suspects something may have happened on the 27th. "The numbers may be exaggerated, but then again, you are dealing with illiterate peasants who often can't count," she says...
More than 900 college students from 78 schools participated over the weekend in the 27th annual Harvard National Model United Nations conference...