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Sporting a tribal headdress and wearing a leopard-skin cloak over a rainbow-hued tunic, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia moved into his official residence two weeks ago. Accompanied by a ululating crowd of followers, Bishop Abel Muzorewa rode in an ox-drawn cart to the stately white mansion -renamed from Independence House to Dzimbahwe (House of Chiefs)-that for 15 years was occupied by Ian Douglas Smith. The scene raised unsettling questions about Muzorewa's month-old multiracial government: Is it really more than an African show masking the continuation of effective white power? Is there...
...operator, Whale Ltd., Iceland's only whaling company, went into the Icelandic courts to request an injunction that would restrain McTaggart and company from further interference with its four whalers. But Greenpeace was not ready to call it quits. Early one morning, the anti-whalers' mother ship, Rainbow Warrior* slipped out of Reykjavik in hopes of making it to the whaling grounds. Said McTaggart: "I think we've been so successful they will have to arrest us." Not quite. During the first attempt, an Icelandic gunboat simply signaled them back just a few miles beyond the harbor...
...name traces to an old North American Indian legend that when the earth's animals have been hunted almost to extinction, a rainbow warrior will come down from the sky to protect them...
DIED. Don Iddon, 66, Britain's sassy U.S.-based columnist who for 22 years interpreted America's wiles, whims and gossip in the London Daily Mail and papers on five continents; of a heart attack; in New York City. By depicting America as a "Rainbow Land" filled with steak-chomping faddists and wastrels, the bumptious Iddon ("Let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") delighted his readers and confirmed their preconceived notions of primitive Yankee ways...
...preacher made her relationship with Lee any different from that of any married couple. She produced a sheaf of love letters in which the actor claimed he lusted after her, saying that her coming to him on location was his "bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow." Lee pooh-poohed the missives as the kind of thing fellas tend to write. If measuring love was like a fuel gauge, he said gallantly, his feelings for Michelle never got above "half a tank...