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...denounced as traitors for leaving their homeland, and many had all but abandoned hope of seeing it again. Under the liberalizing influence of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, however, Moscow has had a change of heart. Last week's returnees were the third group in the past three months to flock home. According to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 1,000 more emigres are awaiting permission to make the same journey. "Now that we are opening our borders for them," Gerasimov said, "the number of such requests is growing...
...payoffs and carp. They are all part of the Christmas tradition in Czechoslovakia, where the moon-mouthed fish is the centerpiece of holiday feasts. The challenge is to get a fat and tasty one, and that is where the corruption comes in. In Prague hundreds of fish vendors flock to giant carp tanks on the city's outskirts. They bribe the staff to give them big carp instead of small, the truckers to deliver the fish early instead of late and officials to award them prime locations on city streets. By the time the fish are ready for sale...
...lights go down in Manhattan's deco dream palace, Radio City Music Hall, and Mr. Showmanship makes his entrance, flying across the huge stage in a cocoon of feathers, enough for a whole flock of purple ostriches. Did we hear someone say "Peter Pansy"? Go on and laugh. He doesn't care; he knows you'll soon be laughing with him. Perhaps by the first-act finale. A gigantic Statue of Liberty mock-up stands in center stage holding a candelabrum. Thirty-six Rockettes perform their automated scissors kick. Skyrockets flare on the back scrim. And then Glitter Beau Peep...
...certain that the Constitution remains in the hands of real Christians. A Congressional candidate in South Carolina several years ago attacked his opponent for not believing that "Jesus Christ has come yet." Vice President Bush assures us that he was actually "born again." And some religious leaders tell their flock that they cannot be real Christians, Catholics, or orthodox Jews if they vote for candidates who support a woman's right to choose abortions, or a man's right to choose another man as his sex partner...
Even without publicity, however, the people still flock to the tank each night. Along the road in the dark, conversations go like this...