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Shackled by a national state of emergency and pinned under the bullying, finger-wagging rule of State President P.W. Botha, South Africa has long lain at the edge of despotism. Last week Botha pushed it over the line. Declaring himself fully recovered from the stroke he suffered in January, he reclaimed his position as head of state, in defiance of resolutions by the National Party's parliamentary and provincial organizations. Since he resigned as leader of the party last month and is not a member of Parliament or the . Cabinet, the chief executive is now accountable...
...Abbott was born with just a rudimentary finger on his right hand 21 years ago to teenage parents. His father packed meat and sold cars. His mother educated herself, first to teach, then to go to law school. They raised a remarkable boy by never treating him too remarkably. "I had a hook," he says. "I hated it. They let me discard it." They let him dream of anything. "Growing up, I always pictured myself as a baseball player, but I can't remember how many hands I had in my dreams. I never thought to myself, 'Wow, I only...
...balanced a pile of tape transcripts and letters he had carried out of Greece as evidence. From time to time he ran his finger across the * pages of his old appointment book, picking out entries of meetings with the Prime Minister and other key government officials...
After the vote, the White House went on a binge of finger-pointing. Some Bush aides blamed the stunning defeat on ex-Tower aides who, they said, had been lobbying ineptly on Capitol Hill without proper supervision. The Tower men scoffed back that they had been watched closely all the way by Sununu. Said one: "Sununu has been in on all the major decisions." But all sides agreed on the real villain: Sam Nunn. Several accused the chairman of deciding secretly two weeks ago that Tower had to go and then browbeating his Democratic colleagues into a party-line vote...
Kareem's association with Khaalis was brief, but a vague connection to mystery and darkness lingered. Unlike Wilt Chamberlain, who slouched in layup drills and favored finger rolls over slam dunks, Kareem lacked the good taste to be chagrined by his size, to shrink himself down to tradition, to hide the shame of his incongruous talents. He was as tall as Chamberlain and yet as agile as Bill Russell. "His sky hook," says Russell, who seldom rhapsodizes, "is the most beautiful thing in sports...