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Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
Primal Scream have always been a band preternaturally dependent upon their producer; their finest moment until now, 1991's _Screamadelica_ was as much Andrew Weatherall's achievement as their own. _Echo Dek_, Adrian Sherwood's remix album of _Vanishing Point_ was arguably better than the original. _Exterminator_, too, shines because of those assisting the band. Among those producing _Exterminator_ are, variously, the Chemical Brothers, David Holmes and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. It's a diverse mix, though it flows surprisingly well. Highlights include David Holmes' _film noir_-style instrumental ("Blood Money"), and the catchy Jagz Kooner...
Twelve years later, Moscow's muscle lashed out again. In 1968 Czechoslovakia's party leader, Alexander Dučdek, was promoting a series of reforms that promised "socialism with a human face": a more flexible planned economy with touches of political pluralism. The Soviets countered by sending 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops into Prague under the guise of "fraternal assistance...
...vote revived dreams of a neutral Nordic grouping of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Sweden has traditionally provided the impetus, but its attempts to form a Nordic defense alliance foundered in 1949 when Norway joined NATO. Last year Soviet pressure on Finland scuttled Swedish-backed attempts to create Nor-dek, a Nordic economic union. For the near future, Nordek is probably dead, but after a discreet interval, Sweden may well propose more intensive economic cooperation among Nordic nations...
...Dek is a project of G. David Schine, 34, onetime aide to the late Senator Joe McCarthy and now president of Schine Enterprises (hotels, movie theaters, bowling alleys, radio stations, and a fleet of sightseeing boats). Last week Schine opened his first Ski-Dek Center (nine deks) in Buffalo in a converted neighborhood movie theater...