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...announcement was expected, but it came with an unanticipated bonus. In a nationally televised session of Parliament, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, standing before a portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, proclaimed an end last week to 8?? years of martial law. As legislators banged their desks in approval, Zia concluded his speech with the rallying cry "Long live the era of democracy!" Opposition politicians, expecting the move, had already labeled Zia's latest steps toward democracy a "fraud." Perhaps in anticipation of so skeptical a response, the wily soldier-politician sprang a surprise: he ended...
Almost as ambitious is PROpeace, an 8??-month, 5,000-person cross-country walk for global nuclear disarmament. Conceived by David Mixner, a former political consultant to Gary Hart, PROpeace will be supported by a movable city of 2,500 geodesic tents and six mobile kitchens providing an estimated 3.8 million meals over the course of the march. Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe and Leonard Nimoy join a mock march in PROpeace's public-service TV advertisement. About $20 million should cover costs, says Mixner, and so far about $2 million has been raised. Though 11,000 prospective...
...from both men and women. "Patrice has the sleek active body I find beautiful," says Towne. "Her grace matches any ballerina's." Donnelly runs two to four miles three times a week and lifts weights three times a week for three-hour sessions. The results show: her 5-ft. 8??-in., 127-lb. frame has only 8% body fat (a woman of average size carries about 20%). "Men have always loved my body," says Donnelly. "My boyfriend loves to show it off. He'll say to friends, 'Hey, watch Patrice flex!' But I exercise for the inside and the outside...
...Manhattan restaurant or tickets to three conventional Broadway shows. It will also get you into the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, whose first preview performances last week helped launch the new Broadway season. In terms of time and money spent, this sprawling, tumultuous, 8??-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1839 novel is the theatrical bargain of the decade. One off-Broadway musical ?five lively actors, 70 easy minutes, the audience seated in chairs designed by a Bauhaus sadist?costs the playgoer 230 a minute. A full day with the Nicklebys costs about...
...growers say that they cannot survive in a market that is about as quiet, orderly and predictable as a sailors' bar on Saturday night. Crop failures sent world prices soaring to 65¢¢ per Ib. in 1974, and overproduction has made them plunge to about 8??. Late last year the Administration signed the International Sugar Agreement, which would use buffer stocks and export restraints to keep prices between 15¢ and 19¢ per Ib. But the ISA deal must be ratified by the Senate; and Church, who represents a big beet-grower constituency, has kept the agreement bottled...