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...Young Sam together control a majority of party votes. In a defiant gesture aimed at South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, the N.K.D.P. named both Kims permanent advisers to the party and passed a resolution declaring that it "will do its utmost to eliminate any obstacles" to their membership. AGREEMENTS A Hot Line for Missing Planes...
...explore the reasons for the outbreak of violence around Durban. But there were two possibilities: 1) that the local population had again turned its anger on the Indians as scapegoats or 2) that renewed fighting had broken out between Inkatha, the Zulu political organization, and the U.D.F., whose local membership is largely Swazi. In addition, the fear of losing control of the situation may have led police to use their shotguns too much and too soon. Zulu Chief Buthelezi blamed black nationalist organizations, mainly the U.D.F. and the outlawed A.N.C., for "promoting this black-on-black confrontation, as well...
...statistical measure, Spencer W. Kimball's reign as President, Prophet, Seer and Revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was a triumph. During his twelve-year ministry, the Mormon church nearly doubled its world membership (to 5.8 million) and its force of short-term missionaries (to 30,000). He ordered the addition of 31 temples to the 16 that stood when he took charge. Kimball, who had been an invalid for four years, died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 90. Certain to succeed him is the senior among the church...
...than a century. The neo-Baroque building is filled with paintings of such celebrated past members as British colonizer Cecil Rhodes and the ubiquitous portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Built on the wealth of the largest goldfield in the world and the sweat of black labor, the club's membership was, until a few years ago, closed to South Africa's blacks. But these days, there's a new breed of tycoon walking the club's wood-paneled corridors and sipping whiskey in its stuffed leather chairs. A black élite has crossed over from politics and the ruling African...
...friend, Jane, explained it to me. We were talking at a special convening-coven?-of the BLOHARDS (Benevolent Loyal Order of Honorable and Ancient Red Sox Diehard Sufferers of New York), which is a 40-year-old behind-enemy-lines fraternity with a suddenly burgeoning membership. The conclave had been organized in a rush by club founder and grand poobah Jim Powers, and publicized on our website by Jim Shea. Powers had been contacted, in the aftermath of the glorious occasion, by the Boston brass to see if the BLOHARDS would like to gaze upon, and pose with, the championship...