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...times during the first month, only one shot a day was completed, as Hoffman's complex makeup literally slid down his face under the lights. Eventually, it cost approximately as much to bring in a small-scale comedy ($21 million) as it did to film the life of Gandhi on an epic scale. ("Yeah, but they didn't have to shoot in New York," says Hoffman...
Still, Zia has shown himself to be an artful master of political compromise at home and abroad. When Shi'ite Muslims protested against the government's Koran-based compulsory tithing scheme, Zia backed off. He has also moved carefully in his rapprochement with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with whom he would like to negotiate a no-war pact, and in his efforts to keep lines of communications open to the nettlesome Khomeini regime in Tehran. Zia will need all the political acumen he can muster if he is to negotiate successfully the narrow, obstacle-ridden path...
Among modern leaders, Muammar Gaddafi is called a man of simple tastes who spends days alone in meditation on the desert, when he is not threatening to blow up the world. What Indira Gandhi does for fun is not generally known. As for the absent Idi Amin, his pastimes were said to run to the wild side, what with his peculiar way of making enemies an internal issue. Amin has been known to show a light heart, however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were...
...areas. To enforce it, a massive program of national eviction shove J African residents out of entire regions. Meanwhile, a model for resistance presented itself when South Africa's Indian population organized a partly successful effort to combat the discrimination to which they were subjected. A young lawyer named Gandhi led an Indian passive resistance campaign that he later applied on a larger scale in India; his work in South Africa ultimately inspired ANC organizers...
...South African government used--and today continues to use--a pass system to regulate the movement of the completely disenfranchised, and often homeless. African majority. In 1919, following Gandhi's lead, the ANC launched a year-long passive resistance anti-pass movement and publicly burned hundreds of passes. Crushed brutally by the government, the demonstrations didn't last long...