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...leave grownups fumbling for another cup of decaf or a couple of Tums. Hard on the heels of the cartoon craze and hit movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal is doing kitchen box office. It consists of tiny, turtle-shaped marshmallow bits mixed with "Ninja Nets," pieces of khaki- colored wheat, which is used in adult cereal as well. The taste: concentrated marzipan...
...ominous force behind the tensions is a white right-wing organization of self-styled commandos, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement. Dressed in khaki uniforms, members wear a swastika-like insignia, salute Nazi-style and warn of a "holy war" if De Klerk succeeds in carrying out his program. The A.W.B. has launched a campaign of intimidation against Welkom's blacks and has been accused of nighttime beatings. In early May, when armed squads began strutting in the streets during the day, the civic association in Welkom's black township of Thabong declared a consumer boycott. Suddenly white-owned...
...PRAGUE FALLS MAINLY IN THE BOG. When they think of Peace Corps volunteers, Americans are likely to imagine idealistic young folk, sporting sunburns and khaki shorts, digging wells in Tanzania. That image will need some revision when volunteers start arriving in the world's newest developing area -- Eastern Europe. Agreements have been signed for 60-member teams to begin working in Hungary and Poland this summer, and a similar program is being negotiated for Czechoslovakia. In the initial phase, all the volunteers -- whose average age has increased from 24 to 31 since the program began -- will teach English...
...Angeles Times in which I explored the bizarre tragedy of former classmate Jose "Joe" Razo '89, who last year was convicted of armed robbery in California. The article was blunt in its criticism of RAZA members for shunning Razo because of the embarrassment that his confrontational homeboy attire--khaki pants and bandanna around his head--caused them...
Noriega was dressed in olive-green trousers and a khaki uniform shirt with a general's four stars on the epaulets. When questioned by the judge, he stood with a military bearing, with hands clasped tightly behind...