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...feet, cutting them down to size. The Belgians, pushed by the wave of independence sweeping the continent, abruptly abandoned their Tutsi agents and sided with the Hutu majority. Having inflamed the Hutu's resentment of the Tutsi elite, the retreating colonizers left the minority to the mercies of the mob. Thousands of Tutsi fled into exile in Uganda, where they waited for the next 30 years for the chance to reclaim their power...
...queries of his own. Where are the good followers? Wills asks. And where are the great issues and programs that unite leader and led in action? A leader without committed followers is an unheard voice in the wilderness. Followers without a leader who understands their needs are a mere mob. And without a timely, common cause, neither leader nor followers will affect history, for good or ill. Wills describes 16 people in 16 different fields, from Mary Baker Eddy (church) to Ross Perot (business), who have succeeded in directing followers to a common end. Each chapter includes a sketch...
...taking photographs of children at a market in the northeastern town of San Cristobal Verapaz. Suddenly, a peasant woman shouted that her son had disappeared. A crowd gathered and began to beat Weinstock. Moments later when the missing boy reappeared, the mother tried to stop the attack. But the mob was egged on, according to a government investigator, by state road workers who threatened to burn Weinstock alive. She was stripped, stoned, stabbed repeatedly, then left for dead. The army arrived nearly six hours after the incident began. Police later took Weinstock to a hospital. Late last week her condition...
...TEAMSTERS UNION EMBRACED him as a blue collar hero, but lately the troops have begun to wonder if President Ronald Carey is mostly crusading for himself. Nowadays his calls for reform get no respect. Not even when Carey called his four regional headquarters "fertile ground for corruption and Mob influence" and sent a small army of agents to audit their books last month. One regional office in Maryland simply changed its front-door lock. A Chicago office kept Carey's agents waiting in the lobby, where the music was cranked up and the phones were switched off. Last week...
...image as a white knight is fading fast among the 1.4 million members. Carey spent the first year of his presidency -- along with millions of the members' dollars -- fighting government efforts to kick out the Mob. Now investigators are examining whether Carey misled his followers about his own finances. According to records examined by TIME, Carey owns substantial real estate around the U.S. At the least, those holdings challenge the working- class persona he cultivated to become the first directly elected president in the union's history. Carey's campaign literature portrayed him as a humble family man, a truck...