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...hard job controlling the crowd." Those who missed the first ship camped out amid gathering piles of garbage, grateful for the harmattan, a breeze of Saharan dust that blotted out the sun and kept temperatures down from the usual 90° F. Women nursed babies in the shadow of cargo sheds, while vendors of fruit, bread and illegally distilled local spirits set their wares out in the open...
These findings appeared in the Irish Times after the Haughey government had lost the general election to Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael/Labor coalition. Both Doherty and MacSharry quit the Fianna Fail shadow cabinet, two senior police officers resigned, and the government started an investigation of its own. Though Haughey insisted he knows nothing of the shady doings, his political future suddenly seemed endangered...
...Degrading." A "futile exercise." With those brusque dismissals, Dirk Mudge, 55, a blunt-spoken rancher and politician, rang down the curtain last week on the latest act in southern Africa's longest-running shadow play: progress, or more accurately the lack of it, toward independent self-government for the vast and arid territory of Namibia. For more than three decades, South Africa has ruled Namibia in defiance of world opinion and United Nations resolutions. For the past four years Mudge and fellow members of his multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.) exercised nominal authority over local affairs in the territory...
...American art. No sculptor of similar talent has appeared in America since. If one measures a man's achievement by emotional range, formal vitality, material energy and historical ambition-the often derided "phallic" virtues of ambitious art-then Smith was the Melville of his chosen medium, and his shadow lies, perhaps unfairly long, across most of the steel sculpture that has been made in the U.S. since...
Maintaining the pound may prove similarly difficult. With last week's slide, the value of sterling has dropped some 13% since Oct. 12, when the bout of jitters began. The Labor Party's shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Peter Shore, called the decline "yet further evidence of the failure and incompetence of this government's economic policies...