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...Homeward Bound...
...gone? Perhaps it's the onslaught of muggings, attacks and rapes that have occurred in the last year. Xeroxed news articles are posted on the house bulletin boards with "WOMEN BE CAREFUL" written across the top of the pages. It is hard not to feel tentative as one marches homeward...
...goddess who loves him and has offered to "make the man immortal, ageless, all his days." But Odysseus says no. He wants to go home. Those who have never read any translation of the Odyssey will find much that is familiar in Fagles' retelling of the hero's homeward adventures. The cannibalistic one-eyed giant Polyphemus; Circe, the temptress who turns her prospective lovers into swine; the Sirens, whose songs lure seafarers to shipwreck: we have somehow heard of all of them...
DIED. JO VAN FLEET, 81, actress noted for portrayals of proud, stoical mothers; in New York City. Her many films include Cool Hand Luke and East of Eden, for which she won a supporting-actress Oscar. On Broadway she appeared in The Trip to Bountiful and Look Homeward Angel...
...ABIDJAN: Homeward Bound Fearing racial violence in Gabon, migrant workers are fleeing by ship to this Ivory Coast port. Beset by recession and unemployment, Gabon in December cracked down on its 75,000 foreign workers by introducing a nationality-based fee scale for work permits. The fees range from $1,520 for Mauritanians and $1,160 for Malians down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings...