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...voters" were used to manipulate the result. Mugabe dismissed claims of rigging as "nonsense." Can the President's opponents do anything about the suspect results? Opposition Movement for Democratic Change ( MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai said that the ruling party had committed "disgusting, massive fraud" and called on Zimbabweans to "defend their vote." Still, he did not go as far as Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube, who said before the vote that Zimbabwe needed a "non-violent, popular mass uprising." Any such resistance will likely spur violent retribution from the government and its affiliates. "I went to my rural home to vote...
...Fonda started feeling "an opening to the presence of the Almighty." She did not tell Turner (who once famously remarked, "Christianity is a religion for losers") because she feared he would have talked her out of it. "And he could have," she says. "I'm still not ready to defend it or analyze it or anything, but I have become moved by it, fascinated by it and helped by it-and I'm not even sure what it is. But I am humming with reverence and going at it in my usual full-bore...
...statements from 70s moral guardians -such as "It's a floodgate of filth that's engulfed the minds and hearts and souls of America like nothing else ever has" -especially when the speaker is convicted savings-and-loan embezzler Charles Keating. It's a pleasure to watch Reems stalwartly defend his work against the ferociously righteous Roy Cohn (later to die of AIDS after a life of secret gay sex). What isn't so funny is that a Memphis jury found Reems guilty of obscenity for appearing in Deep Throat. "For the first time in U.S. history," narrator Dennis Hopper...
...Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where opposition calls for reforms have been repeatedly repressed. Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko put down a protest over the weekend, and some analysts believe the dominoes could even start falling in the Kremlin's direction, though Vladimir Putin's grip seems pretty secure. "Nobody rushed to defend Akayev," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "All these post-Soviet authoritarian regimes are proving colossuses with feet of clay...
...clearing their names, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior. Still, other Catholic clergymen have appeared on StB lists, and last month the Slovak Bishops' Conference issued an apology: "We concede that some clergy were in the service of the StB, and we don't want to defend them," it said. Despite the controversy, the Slovak government backs the UPN's efforts. In Lithuania, where an explosive list of 60 alleged KGB "reservists" was posted on the Web last month, high-profile politicians have been targeted. The list included Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis and two other senior Lithuanian officials...