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...Indian soldiers and policemen in the streets, Srinagar is enemy territory. At every major crossing, they huddle around sandbag bunkers. They never know when a young man might dash up, whip back his cloak and blast away with an AK-47 rifle. He might kill or wound a soldier or two, forcing the military to give chase and shoot back -- and thus turn more people against the government...
Clergy are not the only professionals concerned about the problem. Judith Schechtman, a clinical social worker for the St. Louis police and the State of Missouri, says there is a dramatic increase in reports of serious, highly secretive satanic cults that practice bizarre rituals to cloak animal torture, drug abuse, pedophilia and child pornography. Such cases are unusual, she says, but extremely damaging to youths. "In the worst-case scenario, therapy can take years...
...left of the entrance is a caribou-skin cloak decorated with woven porcupine quills. The Native Americans, said Brown, "would take [the quills], boil them, flatten them with their teeth, then dye them and weave them...
...round with its concessions, including Mandela's release, and that Pretoria will be able to control the negotiating process. By freeing the antiapartheid movement's spiritual leader, De Klerk believes he is turning a myth back into a man. By legalizing the A.N.C., he removes its cloak of underground heroism and turns it into an ordinary political party. Both Mandela and his organization will then be forced by circumstance and expectation to make compromises. And compromises are expected to anger and disillusion segments of the black majority, giving the government opportunities to divide the opposition...
...timing of the announcement was odd, considering that Mikhail Gorbachev is in the midst of numerous crises, including growing separatism in Lithuania and untamed ethnic violence in Azerbaijan. But cloak-and-dagger experts in the West believe Moscow may have publicized the spy's downfall to warn foreign espionage agencies not to take advantage of the tumultuous times in the Soviet Union. "The Top Hat revelation," said a senior British intelligence officer, "would appear to be a very sophisticated maneuver...