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Tying this together was lead guitarist Brad Shepherd, who managed to out-Hoodoo his fellow Gurus by sporting large circular earrings, a necklace of some unidentifiable carnivore's teeth and, most evocative of all, a cockney chimneysweep's top hat that could have been stolen from Charles Nelson Riley's Hoodoo himself. Shepherd dominated the stage, bounding forth to let the kids up front tousle his hair and producing a series of guitar sounds clever enough to overcome many of the Gurus dumber lyrics...
...Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in 1964 for plotting violent resistance to the South African government. Last year, responding to mounting domestic and international pressures, the government offered him his freedom on the condition that he renounce political violence. Mandela held a one sentence press conference and returned to captivity. His message: "Let them first renounce violence...
...Naturalization Service gathered evidence for the Tucson trial during a nine-month operation dubbed "Sojourner," in which informants joined church meetings and sometimes even participated in transporting fugitives. An ecumenical coalition is pressing a civil suit, which will be heard in December in San Francisco, against INS Commissioner Alan Nelson and U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, charging that government prosecutions interfere with Sanctuary workers performing their religious duties. Says Fife: "This is the first time in the history of our nation that the Government has acknowledged under oath that it has infiltrated church worship services and Bible study sessions with...
Following the execution, Mamike Moloise, 53, complained bitterly that she had been denied the opportunity to visit her son on the day of his death. "I begged," said the bereaved mother, who waited outside the prison gates accompanied by, among others, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela. "I said, 'It's the last time. That's my son.' This government is cruel. It is really, really cruel." Mrs. Moloise was later permitted to see her son's unopened coffin, but his body will remain the property of the state and will be buried inside the prison...
...DIED. Nelson Riddle, 64, composer-orchestrator whose rich, driving arrangements were individually fitted to the styles of such pop greats as Judy Garland, Nat Cole, Linda Ronstadt and, most memorably, Frank Sinatra; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Riddle also composed for TV (his Theme from Route 66 was a pop hit in 1962), and his score for the 1974 film The Great Gatsby won an Oscar...