Word: nation
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...mouth, South Africa Now seems likely to endure. Its producers have received badly needed funding in the form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...
Last Thursday evening Gorey watched it happen again. A Senate aide told him that the Senate Armed Services Committee was about to hold its momentous vote on whether John Tower, the former G.O.P. Senator from Texas, should be the nation's next Secretary of Defense. Gorey hustled over to Room 608 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. But he knew the outcome even before the vote was taken. "After I got there, two Senators, Republicans John McCain and Pete Wilson, arrived," Gorey recalls. "I could see by their glum expressions that they knew Tower did not have the votes...
...figure in the lawmakers' investigation is Peter MacDonald, 60, Chairman of the Navajo nation, whose reservation encompasses 17 million acres in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Raised to be a medicine man, MacDonald went on to become a successful aerospace engineer. In the 1960s he gave up a lucrative job to return to his people and help manage their finances. It turns out, investigators say, that he managed only too well...
...there's always bingo. According to federal officials, the game has become a $400 million business on the nation's reservations, and for an obvious reason. Since federal laws give Indians some of the privileges of independent countries, gambling operations are free from state regulation. Thus while most church bingo games in the U.S. might permit a maximum prize of $250 a card, the Indian version can offer as much as $50,000 for a single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime...
...Wednesday some 200 members of the National Writers Union demonstrated in front of the Iranian mission to the United Nations. And in New York City's SoHo district, 21 American writers, including Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, met to exchange brave words and read passages from the Rushdie novel. Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation...