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COVER: A feisty flock awaits the Pope, whose fourth U. S. tour starts next week...
...soft drugs such as marijuana and hashish are readily available at coffee shops. Waiters bring the fixings right to the table. An enterprising service called Home Blow Couriers even offers free delivery of drug orders in excess of $12.50. Small wonder that youthful "hash tourists," especially from West Germany, flock to Amsterdam's Dam Square, or that visitors who do not understand Dutch occasionally experience strange feelings from the marijuana pastries they unknowingly eat in coffee shops...
Despite the war, many Iranians enjoy themselves. In summer thousands flock to the Caspian Sea, and in winter the ski resorts remain popular. Both beaches and slopes have separate zones for men and women, and there are always the Revolutionary Guards and their chador-clad female counterparts on hand to enforce proper Islamic behavior and maintain the segregation of the sexes. The cinemas, which are often jammed, feature both postrevolutionary Iranian fare and heavily censored foreign films. One recent hit was Barabbas, a 1962 picture starring Anthony Quinn. Another was the Iranian film The Call of the Forest, which dealt...
...cash and power -- a show resembling some lurid made-for-TV mini-series that might be called God and Money. For six hours, harassed officials of the embattled PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) ministry were confronted at a public bankruptcy hearing by members of the flock that had supported the $203 million religious empire created by its ousted leaders, Jim and Tammy Bakker. The officials struggled to assure PTL donors that the foundering television- and-theme-park ministry, now about $68 million in debt, might soon turn a profit. Asserted the new PTL chief operating officer...
...grow more affluent, they are inspiring a Latin beat on Madison Avenue and a surge in Spanish-language advertising. More and more U.S. corporations are spending big money to woo Spanish speakers in their native tongue on radio, television and in print. Traditional English-language advertising agencies and a flock of bright, lively Hispanic firms are rushing to grab a piece of the business. Says Andres Sullivan, creative director of Mendoza, Dillon y Asociados, an eight-year-old Hispanic ad agency based in Newport Beach, Calif.: "People are realizing there's a major business opportunity out there...