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...once divided and single-minded. Over the course of the book, Van der Merwe and more than 30 other Wyndal residents vent their passions, explain their prejudices and in effect deliver their own eulogies. "We lack (tribal ritual) so terribly in our society," laments Peter Cooke, an English farmer, in confessing his envy of a nonwhite childhood friend. "We have no order. We drift about. We are lost...
...official Church News of Salt Lake City published the letter last month. It was written by Martin Harris, a farmer who lived near Palmyra, N.Y. Harris was Smith's first convert outside the prophet's family. Addressed to a Canandaigua, N.Y., newspaper editor who later joined the sect, the document describes a version of the foundations of Mormonism that differs markedly from the official account written by Smith in 1838. The letter, discovered in 1983 | and donated to the church last month by a Utah businessman, depicts Smith as a man influenced by folk magic and occultism. This appears...
...stream of refugees fleeing into Sudan, which is itself suffering through a wasting famine. Almost 850,000 Ethiopians have crowded into Sudanese camps where, often, there is little shelter or food or water to be found. There is, however, peace. Mohammed Ali, a gaunt 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer, led his wife and five children on a ten-day walk to Sudan's Wad Sherife camp. At the end of the road he found scant sustenance. "I miss my village," Ali told TIME's Philip Finnegan, "but I am glad I came. I am afraid of the war. Even...
Reagan and Gonzalez seemed to establish an instant rapport, and even traded anti-Communist jokes over lunch. Reagan told an old one about a Soviet farmer who claims his potato crop is so abundant "it reaches to the foot of God." When a visiting commissar reminds the farmer that "there is no God," the local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit...
...Soweto, but a "homelands" policy that ensures a mass migratory labor system ripe for exploitation. Real apartheid is the Black miner who works hundreds of miles from his family, the "Coloured" woman who is forcibly evicted from neighborhood by the so-called Department of Community Development, the white farmer who is harassed by white vigilantes for sharing his earnings with his Black farmhands...