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...INTO THE VOTING BOOTH, IT will be your coffin, threatened the notices glued to the walls of mosques by extremist guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group. "Ballots on Thursday, blood and bullets to follow," promised a rhyme chanted in Arabic by the fundamentalists. In a country where beheading, throat slashing and car bombs have become daily occurrences, no one doubted the militants' fervent wish to drown last Thursday's presidential election in blood...
...kids) to attend the sold-out shows at the state's only maximum-security prison. Parents with a sense of humor took photos of their children behind bars in a replica of an Angola prison cell. Business was also brisk at the "Lifers' Sno-Cones" refreshment booth, manned by a murderer and an aggravated rapist. In a nice Jailhouse Rock touch, an all-convict band named Pros and Cons provided the music...
...This will be very interesting. Ken commands intense loyalty," Walsh said. "But you can never be certain once people get inside the voting booth...
Certainly none of Donald's readers will be surprised by Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential election, the outbreak of civil war or by the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The facts of Lincoln's life have been drummed into us from grammar school onwards. What may surprise the reader is Lincoln's active sense of humor, physical strength and youthful spirit and vigor...
...years ago, the Cuban President is receiving a warm welcome. Although President Clinton is officially avoiding Castro, the 69-year-old Cuban president and former rebel was not hurting for invitations during the U.N. celebration. "Gorbymania, it seems, has given way to Fidelmania," reports Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth. Among those putting out the welcome mat for the Cuban leader: The Council on Foreign Relations, TIME Magazine, U.S. News & World Report publisher Mortimer Zuckerman and a New Jersey woman who invited him to a family cookout. The invitations will have to be local, though. By the conditions of his visa...