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From the first time that the two were brought together by Ebony magazine four years ago, a sense of kinship, then friendship, began to flourish. Yolanda King, 27, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., and Attallah Shabazz, 24, the daughter of Malcolm X (Shabazz is her mother's name), found that they had more in common than famous fathers in the civil rights movement: both have an abiding passion for the theater. With roles for black actresses scarce, they pooled talents and backgrounds to write and star in Stepping into Tomorrow, a play they have been performing...
...idea is to have the U.S. help democratic institutions and ideals to flourish in countries where democracy does not currently exist. This would be done by training young leaders and encouraging the formation of labor unions, political parties, free news media, universities and businesses. Administered by the United States Information Agency. Project Democracy is mostly a campaign of ideas...
...fare wars have ultimately been caused by the twin impact of deregulation, which brought price competition to the airlines and allowed nonunion upstarts to flourish, and the recession, which caused traffic to shrink. Result: too many seats chasing too few passengers. No-frills carriers like People Express (see box) and Southwest Airlines are thriving on the competition by holding down costs, but some other small airlines are being squeezed. Air Florida, which had helped spark an earlier round of discounting, lost $64 million in the first nine months of 1982 after Delta and Eastern began matching the fares...
...surprising that Ghanaians would flee their own country's repression and economic mayhem to search for better conditions in Nigeria. Unfortunately, the politics of uncurbed ambition flourish in both countries. When both meet, the combination means the sacrifice of the welfare of millions to the personal authority...
Bubbling over with enough "relationship" and "starting over" clichés to fill a week of Phil Donahue shows, New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, 52, last week announced "a new era for the third time." And with that flourish of Rotary Club optimism, he introduced as the Yankees' new manager Billy Martin, 54. "I'll be handling all the trades," said Martin stagily, playing off the pair's old Lite beer ad. "What do you mean?" Steinbrenner blustered. "I'm handling all the trades . . . And if you don't like...