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...Administration launched a review of its policy toward South Africa (see box), and the British government prepared to send its Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, on a trip to that country to try to arrange a dialogue between the Pretoria government and black leaders and seek the release of Nelson Mandela, the most prominent figure in the longoutlawed African National Congress, who has been in prison for 24 years. In the meantime, a fourth foreign journalist, West German TV Correspondent Heinrich Buettgen, was ordered to leave the country. When the local Foreign Correspondents Association protested the government's "sinister" expulsions...
...Stephanie Nelson, a high school senior from Englewood Cliffs, N.J., the morning classes can be the most exhausting. She says, "You hate getting up at nine o'clock in the morning to go to classes, but once you're there, you become involved...
...course, sometimes post-modernist can be different from anything that the students have experienced previously. Nelson says of one teacher, "She's amazing. I come back with bruises." And Keller says that in one of her classes, "The teacher has you slam your body against the floor and do other bizarre things...
...have 40 sousaphones and 76 trombones; 300 banjo and fiddle players; an 800-voice chorus; a 250-voice gospel choir; an 850-member drill team; 300 jazzercize dancers; 200 square dancers and 300 tap dancers --and, of course, those tenscore Elvis Presley impersonators. All that plus Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Taylor, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Frankie Avalon, Waylon Jennings, Billy Preston, Patti LaBelle, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, the Pointer Sisters, Charlton Heston. And Fabian...
...week's discussions centered in the Hague, where leaders of the twelve members of the European Community met to ponder the subject. In the end, they settled for weaker recommendations than many observers had expected. They called on South Africa to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years, and to lift its ban on the African National Congress, the country's oldest black political organization, which today conducts a limited and largely ineffectual guerrilla campaign against the Pretoria regime from nearby Zambia...