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...their little vessel made of six bus tires. For two days, they rowed and drifted in the Gulf Stream without food or water. On the second day, shortly before the rescue, they spotted another group of balseros. Odalis Peres Lopez, a 27-year-old housewife, was on that second raft. She recalls yelling and crying with joy as Domaniewicz circled above. "When we saw that plane," she says, "we knew we were in the land of freedom." In tribute to same, Castro plans to drop the "Fidel" from his name...
That contemporary version of a river raft belongs to Millroy, who enlists Jilly in his mission to purify America's digestive system. It's a sewer, he says, clogged with grease, sugar and the flesh of slaughtered mammals. The wizard preaches the loaves-and-fishes diet. His nutritional guide is the Bible: "The book of life. The book of food. The book of meals and miracles." % In its pages he finds the secrets of longevity and regularity. From Ezekiel come the ingredients for bread. Daniel serves lentils, and Nahum offers figs. Millet, barley, honeycombs and melons tumble from holy writ...
With Ricardo and two others, Raul is arranging to buy a motorized boat to sail to Miami, where a brother recently landed on a raft. The youths have paid out half the 30,000-peso price, but have no idea how they'll get the rest. "I want to be free!" shouts Raul. "I want to go to a hotel for a vacation. I want to take a car and drive into the countryside. We are Negroes in our own country; we are slaves." His voice rises close to hysteria as waiters in the ; restaurant pretend not to hear...
...even if they are possible. A raft of procedural and substantive questions surrounds those elections (see box). Yeltsin suspended the Communist Party last week, and one of his most senior aides, Sergei Filatov, said the Party should be banned from the elctions. Yeltsin also dissolved city government and called on all regional soviets, the legislative councils subordinate to the Supreme Soviet, to resign so new local governments can be elected in December...
...smoke. The inside of the volcano is open for viewing -- and leads all who dare enter into the Dragon Sanctuary, where a skeletal creature is enshrined in light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks on a pool of water. Visitors can also sample from the menus of 15 restaurants and peek into the computerized control room that operates the retractable dome -- the largest in the world...