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Every Thursday the women stand in silent protest by the president's palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They don't do much--just hold up photos of missing family members and, looking pleadingly at the pink building, weep. Occasionally the military police of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla drag the women away to join the ranks of their relatives--the Desaparecidos--the disappeared ones, who are either jailed or killed by the government. But usually the police just watch the women mockingly. "They're crazy," one said. "Everyone knows that...
...authors drag Morrison along from his military-brat childhood to his frenetic rambling around the Los Angeles music scene of the '60s, where he knew how to hold center stage, even lying on his back. Hopkins and Sugerman relate how Morrison, spread out on the studio floor, prepared for the first Doors recording session by chanting a primal litany of incest and patricide. The authors provide little evidence that Morrison grew much in the five years following this session, not emotionally, certainly not aesthetically...
Knockdown, drag-out affairs in Madison Square Garden are nothing new to one Carter supporter and unofficial Kentucky delegate. So while the convention droned on, former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad All was working the floor-signing autographs and pressing flesh. "I don't know nothing about politics," said the Greatest, with uncharacteristic modesty. He did, however, sport an ERA YES button, as well as a natty new mustache. Asked if he were sparring for a career in office, Ali replied: "The only thing I'd ever run for is President...
...punch of the polls and Brother Billy rattled Democratic officeholders from Capitol Hill to statehouses across the nation. Their fear: a ticket headed by Carter in November could drag them down to defeat. Control of the House, as well as the Senate, suddenly seemed in danger. Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, the majority leader, who has never been close to Carter, quietly sounded out party colleagues on Capitol Hill. There was enough worry about the President's slippage for some Senators to consider sending a delegation to the White House to urge Carter to step aside in favor...
...GEORGE LUCAS carries through on his grandiose plans, the saga of Star Wars could drag on longer than the Thirty Years War. But if the rest of the installments in the series are as good as the two released to date, Lucas can prolong his battles in space as long as he wants--or as long as movie-goers continue to flock to the films in record numbers...