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...have power. Don't use it to support that regime. Put your weight behind liberation." Without such a peace initiative, Nyerere warned, Rhodesia could be headed for an Angola-style civil war between rival nationalists. The end result: a new Zimbabwe that might be far more repressive than present-day Rhodesia...
...raised the money for Girl Friends herself, then hawked the movie to distributors (eventually landing Warner Bros.). Although the film's real subject is female friendship, Weill is not a dogmatic feminist. Girl Friends tells of both men and women who suffer the pangs of young adulthood in present-day Manhattan...
...role in Africa? New York's Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz, while on a fact-finding visit to Cuba, met with a group of 16 students at the University of Havana. The three-hour session, reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, taught Solarz a bit more about life in present-day Cuba than his hosts had intended...
...guest) to care for travelers as well as ailing and dying pilgrims. Within the past few years, 130 groups have organized hospice programs, and about 20 institutions recognized by the newly formed National Hospice Organization (N.H.O.) are operating in the U.S. Unlike the way stations of the past, the present-day hospices provide more than attentive, sympathetic care for the dying. They do pioneer work in such neglected medical areas as the easing of pain and other symptoms of terminal illness and deal in psychological counseling for both patients and their families...
None of these cars, however distinctive, can be called originals-which may be all to the good. Those old Auburns and Stutzes and Cords were by present-day standards woefully underpowered and undersprung, cranky and uncomfortable...