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Seen from miles away, it looks like a giant pearl-gray dirigible hovering over the African bush. Up close, its true shape emerges: a sandy-beige concrete behemoth topped by a gargantuan dome and a copper cross that gleams in the relentless sun. Equally remarkable, the great basilica is built in post-Renaissance style and has two long arms formed by 128 massive Doric columns that reach out from the porch to envelop a 7.4-acre plaza paved with granite and marble. Has St. Peter's Basilica been magically transported from Rome to the heart of Africa? No, this...
...members of Congress willing to protect them. House Banking Committee member Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who refuses to take PAC money, believes this may be the disgrace that brings down the current congressional establishment. "We're looking at an eleven-figure fraud story that's bigger than Teapot Dome," he says...
Driving home from dinner two weeks ago, Senator Mark Hatfield was suddenly confronted by a reality that has become commonplace for less exalted residents of Washington. Only six blocks from the gleaming Capitol dome, the Oregon Republican watched as a man 20 yards ahead of him blasted away with a gun at another man. Hatfield zoomed through a red light to flee the scene. He did not call the police. "I assure you if in Washington you tell the police you saw somebody shooting somebody, they'd say, 'So what?' " Hatfield explained...
...stand out: the Yuletide message sent by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford to celebrate her first year in office. Mailed to friends, journalists and fellow government officials across the country, Mofford's missive is a caricature of herself as a toga-clad Goddess of Liberty perched atop the state capitol dome. In recent years the beehive-coiffed Governor, 66, has sent out similar cards showing herself as Uncle Sam, Santa Claus and even Mae West. If the practice catches on among Governors, next Christmas may bring portraits of George Deukmejian as Plato and Mario Cuomo as St. Augustine...
...Soviet leader will address the United Nations, tour a capitalist pleasure dome, then fly to Castro' s Cuba. -- Here' s how high- tech weapons like the Stealth bomber and SDI could make the world less stable. -- Why Bush lets ; Tower twist slowly in the wind. -- The Democrats wrestle with their Jackson problem...