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Fort Walla Walla is no more. A monument has replaced the doomed mission. But in the Eastgate Plaza shopping mall, just catercorner from Walla Walla's only De Lorean Motor Car dealership, the Army has stationed its missionary. Sergeant First Class Patrick Yasenak is a recruiter, and he has done very well. In fact, the Pentagon brass have made it official that he is exemplary, perhaps the best among their 4,797 Regular Army proselytizers: a few weeks ago, in a ceremony at his Eastgate Plaza office on a sunny day as crisp as cold soda, Recruiter...
...arrive from Greece electronically. AT&T, which is sponsoring the Olympic relay, set up a system at the ruins in Olympia to convert the flame to an electronic impulse. This was to have been transmitted by satellite this week to a receiver in New York City's U.N. Plaza. Unfortunately, the L.A.O.O.C. forgot a lesson as old as the Iliad: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts or, in this case, guarding traditions...
...scare, the Pope presided over rites canonizing 103 martyrs, the first such group ceremony outside of Rome. The new saints were killed under 19th century monarchs of the Yi dynasty, who suppressed what was then a tiny, alien sect. The site of the canonization Mass, Seoul's Yoido Plaza, is usually reserved for the May 8 observance of Buddha's birthday. But since the Catholics' ten-story cross and shell-shaped altar were too monumental to be dismantled in time, the Buddhists agreed to step aside...
...Harvard protest was only one of seven similar rallies at other private experimentation centers across the country. It comes on the heels of a protest last year in Boston's Park Plaza hotel which attracted 4500 supporters...
...city and mounted a 35-ft.-high cloth banner bearing the slogan. At Maracanã stadium, the huge electronic Scoreboard flashed the words repeatedly during soccer matches. The climax came last week, in Brazil's biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched fists and chanting "Diretas já!" Yet at times the six-hour rally had the flavor of carnaval, with a hot-air balloon, a laser light show and strains of a samba beat. Shortly after nightfall, politicians and major Brazilian...