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Some civic leaders think Watts' notoriety can be turned to advantage. "We don't hide the rebellion," says Watts Towers Art Center Director John Outterbridge. "We want to get tourists here to dispel the myths." If many of the myths still hold true, at least there are signs of hope and a heartening willingness in the community to face up to its problems. Says Charles Woods, operator of a mobile barbecue: "All the new construction, it's built pride. People are more together now." --By Frank Trippett. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...sure that peace would be kept stable and lasting." In an ironic twist, the President found himself trying to explain away a gaffe by his top aide. Regan, he said, merely meant that wives "also had an interest in children and a human touch"--a comment not likely to dispel the controversy. --By David Beckwith. Reported by Barrett Seaman and Adam Zagorin/Geneva
...amount of aid or assistance, it seemed, could dispel the widespread feeling that the bureaucracy in Bogotá had failed when the crisis was at its worst. Critics of the relief effort charge that three days after the eruption the government had still failed to organize a plan of action. By that time, of course, hundreds of people alive in Armero immediately after the mudslides had perished. Nonetheless, U.S. Ambassador Charles A. Gillespie defended the Colombian government, saying that confusion and disorganization "are normal in disaster situations...
...A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital in Cape Town to his cell in Pollsmoor Prison. State President P.W. Botha tried to dispel the rumors, saying that "no decision has been taken" on Mandela's future. At week's end, authorities announced that Mandela had been returned to the prison outside Cape Town...
...applaud your reporting on the rarely publicized fighting between the Ethiopian government forces and the Eritrean rebels [WORLD, Dec. 23]. In that strategic area of Africa, it has been more a superpower struggle than anything else. This kind of balanced reporting helps dispel the naive notion that nature is the only cause of the tragic suffering of the people in the region. Aziz L. Issarah Ossining, N. Y. Academic Freedom...