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...drawing attention to the May Day rally. The demonstrators complied. When the parade returned some 30 minutes later, however, only half of the participants returned with it. The reduced crowd of 2,000 faithful remained to hear Nicaragua's agrarian reform minister, Jaime Wheelock Román, heap scorn on Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy for suggesting that the government should negotiate with the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who are waging hit-and-run warfare along the country's borders. Yet the generally desultory nature of the festivities was one more indication that the Sandinistas...
...huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade Habré ate from the same...
...detraction, believe me," says Bayer, "and being back among old friends is great too. But the most important thing is having a place to compete again. It's a second chance at life, really." Guy Wolstenholme, 53, says, "We could all be on the scrap heap." That name is familiar only in international golf, but Wolstenholme, an Englishman who has played most of a distinguished career in Australia, won $72,757 last year to finish eighth in the senior standings. "I've lost a few yards' distance since December," he lightly notes. "Cancer. Not only...
...Crimson--with an overall record of 8-9, 4-3 in league competition-into a three way tie for second place in the Ivy League race, one-half game out of first Princeton, which downed Columbia, 34-28 last night, sits alone at the top of the Ivy heap at 4-2. In other action Dartmouth edged Yale, 60-57, and Cornell bowed to Penn...
Four centuries ago, no body imagined that La Serenissima, the most serene republic, would come to this. In 1550, when much of Rome was a rubbish heap and wild pigs rooted in the Forum, Venice had never been invaded; its form of government - by council and committee, hardly a democracy in the modern sense but a vast improvement, in point of rights and liberty, on the feudal or city-boss regimes that prevailed elsewhere in Europe - had scarcely changed since the 14th century, and would continue until 1797, when Napoleon abolished...