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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have gained their independence, but few of their governments have found a democratic way to accommodate political opposition. In country after country, governments have grown wary of their political enemies, often for good reason, and have moved against them. At the same time, opposition parties have felt obliged to express dissent by unlawful means, and in the end many of their leaders have fled their countries. Last week that sorry chain of events was repeated in one of black Africa's more promising nations, Zimbabwe...
...suicide guide that Koestler promoted, like other how-to suicide manuals published in the U.S., Scotland and The Netherlands, was designed only for the use of hopelessly sick people, with the express purpose of reducing, as the British guide puts it, "the incidence of unsuccessful attempts." A Guide to Self-Deliverance is heart-wrenching reading. The manual stresses that suicide should be a last resort for those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags...
Florida is still the primary destination of vacationing Harvard students in spring. Airline fare wars have reduced ticket prices to Florida to as low as $98--for a round trip on People's Express...
...Majesty's smile grew wanner and wanner, and sometimes disappeared. Her frustration was plain when, emerging from President Reagan's mountaintop Rancho del Cielo (Ranch in the Sky), she took a spritz of rain in the face. Recounted Brian Vine, the monocled correspondent of the London Daily Express: "She looked like she had backed a loser at the Newmarket races." Despite such signs of royal pique, her press secretary, Michael Shea, insisted that the Queen was unfazed by the weather. "She loves it," he declared. Then Shea got downright fulsome in finding silver linings: "The Queen...
...course of a harbor tour, acting San Diego Mayor William Cleator, trying to be helpful, put his palm lightly, briefly on her back. Some San Diegans were scandalized by the mayor's familiarity, and sensation-hungry Fleet Street reporters pounced. "The Queen was visibly bothered," the Daily Express huffed, "and frowned her disapproval...