Word: caped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporting figures heavily in this week's cover, calculates that he has flown at least a million miles for TIME during the past 30 years. He has had more than his share of near misses: two flights from which he had deplaned, one in Hong Kong and another on Cape Cod, crashed at the next stop, with fatal results. On a third occasion he was the sixth standby for a flight from Tampa to Atlanta, but only four people ahead of him were taken. Shortly after, the plane crashed at Jacksonville, killing all aboard. Says Griggs: "I missed getting...
...racially troubled South Africa, a new and potent form of protest has emerged: the lowly T shirt. Worn mostly by black youths, the multicolored shirts bear antiapartheid slogans and organizational plugs. Security forces have often ordered demonstrators to remove the T shirts. Last January, Cape Town police banned all T shirts, regardless of their messages, in an effort to thwart protesters at the opening of Parliament. The order was met with public ridicule and was quickly rescinded by an embarrassed government...
Mandela spent the year alone in a spacious cell on the third floor of a maximum-security wing at Pollsmoor prison, ten miles south of Cape Town. And although he has been behind bars since August 1962 for conspiracy and sabotage, his shadow fell with stark drama across the racial conflict that in the past year claimed 1,000 more lives...
...September, when Archbishop Desmond Tutu was celebrating an outdoor eucharistic ceremony as part of his enthronement as head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa, Winnie's car pulled up outside the stadium in a Cape Town suburb. Hundreds of young supporters immediately rushed out of the stands to the parking lot, surrounded the car and began chanting, "Man-de-la, Man-de-la." Concluding that she would hopelessly disrupt the ceremony if she entered the stadium, she drove away...
...Newsman Douglas Kiker uses Cape Cod in winter as the setting for Murder on Clam Pond (Random House; 228 pages; $15.95), in which a broken-down former newspaper reporter finds a new hometown, renewed professional vigor and the love of a much younger woman, all through probing the murder of his next-door neighbor. What lifts the book above the ordinary is a detailed and subtle portrait of the dark side of charity: the victim is the richest woman in town, and the chief suspects are a group of bright young adults whom she singled out for her largesse...