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...actor Charlton Heston in a prominent new role as the Tipper Gore of Beverly Hills. The stormy controversy revolved around rap star Ice-T's Cop Killer, a song that, many argue, condones murder and fuels hatred of police officers. Last week the L.A. rapper, who made a foray into heavy metal on his latest album, Body Count, moved to withdraw Cop Killer from that record...
...left in the once pristine jungles of Vietnam, site of almost uninterrupted warfare from the 1940s through the mid-'70s. The conflict with the U.S., with its carpet- bombing and wholesale spraying of Agent Orange, was especially devastating. Thus it was something of a surprise that the first scientific foray deep into the Vu Quang Nature Reserve, near Laos, found what amounts to a "lost world" of animal and plant species...
Despite an initial foray into undergraduatepolitics in his first year, when he was elected tothe Freshman Council, the future U.S. Senator and1988 presidential candidate was largely absentfrom campus political life...
...Every foray into the forest brings us face-to-face with wildlife, most notably gorillas. In one day we tally four separate encounters, and by the end of the trip we have found 15 gorilla groups. A couple of silverbacks, or mature males, go through the motions of halfhearted charges, but most do not come forward even in response to distress calls and hand clapping by apprehensive females when we get between them and the males. We take to calling these circumspect males the "pacifist gorillas of Ndoki." The gorillas also seemed blithely unaware that they are supposed...
...wire service again avoided dissolution when London-based Middle East Broadcasting Center agreed to purchase it for $3.95 million. The chairman and principal shareholder of MBC is Sheik Walid al-Ibrahim, brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The U.P.I. purchase marks the Saudis' first foray into the mainstream American press...