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...GRAMMY AWARDS (CBS, Feb. 22, 8 p.m. EST). Bobby McFerrin and Tracy Chapman copped the most nominations; Billy Crystal will host the gala from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles...
Several of Japan's small but active radical leftist groups pledged to disrupt the ceremonies, including the Kakurokyo, or Revolutionary Workers' Association. This group claimed responsibility for an explosion several weeks ago at a Shinto shrine related to the emperor...
...extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine of a balanced-budget amendment...
...jail. Satwant Singh was one of the two Sikh bodyguards who shot Mrs. Gandhi; the other was killed in the shootout that followed. Five months earlier the Prime Minister had ordered the Indian army to rout Sikh terrorists holed up in the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. Said an unrepentant Satwant: "I wish that I am born again and again and each time lay down my life...
...Maung, who took power in a coup last September. Since then, more students and other protesters have been arrested or shot. Government employees deemed sympathetic to the democracy movement are being purged from their jobs. Troops are everywhere, even in the compound of the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma's holiest shrine. "They have stripped away the pseudosocialist camouflage that ((former President)) Ne Win put over the army in the 1970s," says a Western observer in Rangoon. "It has always been a military government. Now it's a nakedly military government...