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...uneasy about Turner's apparent moralistic streak. In 1982, in his only editorial for CNN, he called upon viewers to write to their Congressmen to protest the sex and violence in Hollywood films. Studio executives are now speculating about the entrepreneur's designs on MGM productions. Joked an MGM/UA executive last week: "Does Turner want to make movies? He did his Rhett Butler imitation when he was in here Monday." Turner, whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, named his son Rhett, 19, for the Clark Gable character in that film...
...moment it seemed that the South African government had made a significant concession to world opinion. State President P.W. Botha had partly lifted the state of emergency that for the past three months has suspended civil liberties in some of the areas hit by protest. But it turned out that Botha's order affected only six districts, all relatively rural and quiet, of the 36 areas given emergency status. Then Botha took away with one hand what he had given with the other: he extended the emergency measures to eight more districts, including, for the first time, riot-racked Cape...
...Manila violence was the second time in recent weeks that a demonstration had turned ugly. Last month 27 people were killed when security forces moved against a protest in the town of Escalante, 310 miles south of Manila. The violence was not only on the government's side. Last week gunmen believed to be members of a Communist death squad assassinated Gregorio Murillo, the governor of Surigao del Sur province on Mindanao. Murillo, 58, was the highest civilian official killed by rebels this year...
...reaction from Greece's labor leaders was angry and swift, as protest marches and demonstrations erupted across the country. More than 20 unions called tens of thousands of workers out on a 24-hour strike, closing government offices, private industry, shops, schools, hospitals, banks and airports. The action even took taxis off the streets. It was the start of a series of work stoppages that continued through the week. Headlined Avgi, Athens' Eurocommunist daily: THE COUNTRY PARALYZED...
...over a new round of underground nuclear tests. Accompanying him were Defense Minister Paul Quilès and a 21-member party of parliamentarians and journalists. Hours before the blast, officials announced that the French navy had seized the Vega, a ketch owned by the Greenpeace environmental organization, after the protest ship had entered French territorial waters near the test site. By week's end the four crew members were being taken to a nearby atoll and were awaiting expulsion...