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...were hungry, thirsty and penniless," John Cofie Godigah, 38, recalled last week from a hospital bed in Ghana. "I expected the Nigerians to show some feeling. I was mistaken." Godigah had driven his car from Lagos, Nigeria, to a border station on the Benin frontier, joining a caravan of an estimated 250 vehicles filled with foreigners who were being forced to leave the country. When the crowd tried to force its way across the choked border into Benin, Nigerian guards began firing warning shots and tear gas. Godigah was hit. He awoke in a hospital, was released after treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria Brutal Exit | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Toba Spitzer (letter, May 3) is simply mistaken in saying that no Radcliffe Union of Students-sponsored speaker at their April 14 "teach-in" "openly admitted that an abortion kills a human being." Panelist Vilma DiBiase, director of counseling at the Crittendon Clinic, said: "Everyone knows that an abortion kills a human being." This sentiment was also echoed and repeated by various pro-choice people in the audience. It is after all, not surprising that this statement was made, because everyone knows that it is true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Abortion | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...agree with Spencer Jourdain (letter, April 3) that Black students should understand the importance of respecting Harvard and especially the progressive elements in Harvard's tradition. But my old friend Jourdain is mistaken in advising Blacks at Harvard to "nurture" ethnocentric alumni linkages. And he is equally off the mark characterizing such linkages as signs of "bold creativeness." They are nothing of the sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Thinking | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...their dotage. Byron White, 67, still plays a little basketball in the top-floor gym ("the highest court in the land"), while O'Connor goes there for aerobics. And everyone does a fair share of the mental exercise on the court. "There may be dreadfully reasoned or mistaken opinions," says William Van Alstyne of Duke University Law School, "but they can't be rationalized by the age of the Justices." Although most have complained about the heavy case load, there is little talk of retirement. "After all," quips University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard, "the job doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: An Illness Ties Up the Justices | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...there is more to this movie, the work of young barely knowns, than audiences may bargain for in a time when adolescent frenzy is often mistaken for comedy. One guesses that Screenwriter Barish or Director Seidelman was raised in Roberta's world, escaped to Susan's funk scene in lower Manhattan, and lived not just to tell both tales but to process them coolly and ironically. There is not a desperate frame in Desperately Seeking Susan--no anger, no false sentiment, no patronizing. Like the screwball comedies of yore, it places entirely probable people in a highly improbable situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beautiful Dreamer in a Minefield Desperately Seeking Susan | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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