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...candidates set out for the rallies that are the rite of Labor Day, it was clear that Bush in less than a month has erased the lead Dukakis had enjoyed since mid-spring. The Vice President was able to perform that difficult trick by cracking, with negative attacks, the thin ice of support upon which Dukakis had been gliding. Dukakis is answering in kind. Last week he also rehabilitated his wily Bismarckian strategist, John Sasso, who was banished after confessing complicity in an under-the-table video attack exposing Joseph Biden's borrowed phrases...
Almost as regularly as the summer solstice sunrise that they come to celebrate every June, crowds of scruffy youths descend before dawn on ancient Stonehenge on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Last week 4,000 hippies, as they are quaintly called in Britain, turned the annual rite into a full-scale riot, partly to protest the barriers erected around the early Bronze Age monument in recent years to protect it from crowds...
...Vatican has been quietly working with world Orthodoxy, including the Russians, to settle various long-standing obstacles to reconciliation. One of the nastiest is the existence of pockets of Catholics loyal to Rome within countries in which the Orthodox predominate. The newest round of discussions on these Eastern Rite Catholics will be held next week at the New Valamo monastery in Finland...
...with 30-day jail sentences and $500 fines for serving alcohol to minors at an initiation bacchanal last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...
...Sweetwater, Texas, to open at 8 a.m. In the back of his brown-and-tan Ford pickup are 1,042 lbs. of live rattlesnakes. Behind him sit ten more trucks, also filled with live rattlesnakes. The snakes, venomous Western diamondbacks, are reluctant participants in what has become a rite of spring in rural Texas: the rattlesnake roundup...