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...this climate, I found myself playing a role too: scapegoat. Admittedly, my Africa garb, comprised of white linens and a Panama hat, made me an obvious target, but the gall of my inquisitors! After half an hour spent lingering about an old slave fort, one African-American who’d been eyeing me crept towards me and asked, “Don’t you feel guilty...
...House, in this tiny Texas town some 20 miles south of Waco. Tracy Sivacek, the 40-year-old wife of an Army Apache helicopter pilot, delivers water to Sheehan's busy outpost. Sivacek left behind her husband and disabled five-year-old son on Monday and drove nonstop from Fort Rucker, Alabama to Crawford, pausing only to sleep in a Waffle House parking lot. Her husband served one tour in Iraq and, she says, he has not been handling the adjustment back home well. Despite his reservations, she felt she had to support Sheehan's anti-war protest...
...Munda police are conscious of traditional hierarchies and try to work with chiefs wherever they can. In nearby Nusa Roviana, once the coral-walled fort of notorious head-hunter Ingava, Curragh and skipper Saro have come to see the chief, John Boi. As light rain falls through a canopy of coconut palms, the police tramp a muddy path. Earlier in the day, 4 km across the lagoon, Dunde village was swept by a rumor that Chief Boi had banned a local candidate in tomorrow's provincial election from campaigning in Nusa Roviana. Dunde's chief, Eki Lee Daga, informs Curragh...
...Editors: Americans must destroy the power of crime families [NATION, Sept. 29]. U.S. Attorneys Rudolph Giuliani and Diane Giacalone deserve to be praised for their outstanding work in prosecuting Mafia Boss John Gotti. He and the other bosses are the scum of the earth. Phillip Bryant Snow Fort Lauderdale...
...Problem Pregnancy Center in Fort Worth was listed in the Yellow Pages last year under "abortion information." Pregnant women who telephoned and were inveigled into visiting the center, however, found themselves in the clutches of a right-to-life outfit. Unfair, said the Texas attorney general's office, which brought charges. Last week a jury decided the center had violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and should pay $39,000 in fines and $69,000 in attorneys' fees. The case is expected to encourage action against many of the estimated 400 right-to-life clinics nationwide that falsely suggest...