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Although he took part in the earlier separatist struggle, Garang is eager now to renounce any hint of a secessionist program. "We are not a Christian movement," he stresses. "We are not an African movement. We are a Sudanese movement. We cannot for a moment entertain sectarianism based on religion, on race or on tribe, because it is precisely such sectarianism that has blackened Sudan for 30 years. We are a unionist movement dedicated to the creation of a united new Sudan that uses its resources for the people and does not fight within itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...five in six weeks. Miller Barber said, "Oh sure, I've won four or five automobiles over the years." Billy Casper was undecided whether his best was in Okinawa, where all Japan carried him off on its shoulders, or Boise, when he skipped the ball over a lake to entertain Lawrence Welk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Aces and a King | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...built-in obsolescence of 1960s enthusiasms. The same can be said for Demon Box, a collection of new and previously published magazine pieces about the good old days, departed friends, family, the pull of the soil and the lure of dope. Spruced up and polished, these writings impress and entertain but seem like an attempt to squeeze a few more miles out of a writer who has either run out of gas or has been stalled by too many chemical additives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psycho-Alchemy | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

That was Harvard's big riverside gala Wednesday night on the Charles. Apart from its failure to entertain, the celebration was also the only planned opportunity for Cambridge to share in the bounty of the University's 350th birthday party. Outside of traffic jams, roped off parking places, and long lines at every store and restaurant in the Square, the big blowout down by the river was Harvard's big gift to the city...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Picking the Right Gift | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

...claiming to be a Harvard graduate handedout leaflets around campus yesterday, but alsofound time to entertain four porters outsideQuincy House with a 25-minute monologue on allthat ails the University...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Of Postage Stamps, Old Porters And the Wrong Anniversary | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

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