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...Salvador suburb of Mejicanos, voters stood in a half-mile queue while a firefight raged six blocks away. When the action moved closer, the people dropped to the ground until it passed, keeping their places in line. In another northern suburb, San Antonio Abad, voters hid in their homes until the end of a skirmish that left twelve rebels and three soldiers dead. When the fighting stopped about 8:30 a.m., the people had to step over bodies and rivulets of blood in the dusty streets to vote. But vote they...
Tell the two First by their gaze, half hid...
...Middle East while in another, panelists debase the most effective development strategies for the Third World. A building directory indicates that the Japanese Institute can be found on the third floor, the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) on the fourth, and the Harvard Institute for International Development (HID) on the sixth. After a while, the visitor leaves, a bit surprised at his discover. Coolidge Hall is one of he University's best kept secrets: international Harvard...
Other journalists successfully hid rolls of film in their pants, sewed video cassettes into the lining of coats, and photographed notes for easier concealment. Mark Phillips, 33, a London-based correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., smuggled out a videotape containing reports from CBC, CBS, NBC and BBC in the third interior compartment of a zipper bag. At one point, he said, an East German guard was "one zip away" from the tape when Phillips distracted...
...naturally formed a social group. They invented a cocktail they called the "Pontiac" (Amaretto and soda with a twist of lime). They held occasional mock trials at which one of them proved adept at imitating the lawyers involved in the case. On April Fools' Day, Linda Tumino, 21, hid in the back of the sheriffs bus and caused a momentary panic among the deputies when they found themselves missing one juror. "All it was was party, party, party," complains one of the older jurors, but a younger one hotly defends the antics as "creative ways of relieving boredom...