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...Inkatha men told Shibe that he was shot in revenge for the bloodshed in downtown Johannesburg, where a day earlier thousands of Zulus clashed with A.N.C. security guards and police in running gun battles through the city's steel and glass canyons. The violence, said Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi ominously, marked the beginning of "a final struggle to the finish between the A.N.C. and the Zulu nation...
When the day finally comes, no one is happier than I am. My small group of faithful companions (some of them have been doing this longer than I have) and I pile into a car and park illegally somewhere in downtown Boston. Unable to walk, we sprint from the car to the ballpark. happier than clams, we find our unusually-poor seats and sit down...
...Homo sapiens of today. Margaret Segal of Bolingbrook, Illinois, thought our cover subject might have changed his name. She notes, "He looks alarmingly like a blind date I once had." Seymour Mandel of Chicago is positive: "This is the same guy who hit me up for some spare change downtown last week." Roberta Jaeger of St. Simons Island, Georgia, comments, "He's the spitting image of a fine man who once worked as my cook in Indonesia." Roberto Llamas of Miami thinks the nicked face bears witness to a certain ageless klutziness: "Homo erectus may have been the first creature...
Much lies outside of town, too. Bikes are cheap to rent at one of the many cycle shops downtown, and mopeds are common as well. Once on wheels, head out to Something Natural, a bread and sandwich shop which sells exquisite baked goods. (Be sure to sample the Portuguese bread, also carried at the island supermarkets...
...tough they are since 1968, when firebrand Rabbi Moshe Levinger and his American-born wife defied the Israeli government to lead a group of compatriots into the city and establish the first Jewish settlement in the newly occupied territories. Years later, when Levinger's car was stoned on a downtown street, he opened fire, killing an innocent Palestinian shopkeeper; he served only 10 weeks in jail for the crime...