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...SWAT team scrambled and moved out to O.J.'s Brentwood mansion in unmarked cars. They split into a sniper team with scopes, a negotiating team and a larger backup team that fanned out through the bushes and trees around the property, armed with stun grenades and automatic rifles. When Cowling drove up into the driveway, they could see O.J. in the backseat, holding a blue steel revolver pointed up against his own chin...
Until recently, renegade presidential guards zealously protected the grounds from outside inspection. Now the deserted grounds are controlled by rebels who are more tolerant of visitors. As the boom of mortar fire echoes through the surrounding hills, an eerie calm has descended on the mansion. Half a dozen peacocks strut nervously along the garden wall. Inside the house -- a spacious three-story villa of chandeliers and Art Deco furnishings -- papers and clothing litter the floor, presumably from a search for cash or documents. But most of the former First Family's belongings are still here: CDs of Beethoven...
...those first days in the White House. Just when the idea of making the White House a living stage of American history and beauty seized her is hard to say, but within days she had called friends to try out her idea, to hustle funds to restore the old mansion as it had been in the days of Jefferson and Madison. There was Jackie prowling government warehouses for old furniture and diving into the White House basement, smudging herself with dust but scrounging up desks, tables and chairs...
...Tony Award front runner for best revival and best set -- a category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually opens and finally topples, a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism. Brilliant as the effect is, one wonders whether the creators realize what economic system actually did fall apart in recent years...
...further in the future are their freshly renewed hopes for steady jobs, well-lit houses, modern schools, neighborhood clinics. Few delude themselves that a mansion and a Mercedes are at hand, but almost all expect -- even demand -- some visible improvement in their everyday life. "There is a transfer of power taking place to the toiling masses of this country," says Voice Mabe, a trade-union worker in Soweto. "From the end of April, there will be drastic changes...