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...trip is almost a parody of a see-the-stars'-homes guided tour through Beverly Hills. Visiting VIP'S may now enjoy government-sponsored minibus excursions through Soweto, the sprawling black ghetto on the southwestern rim of Johannesburg that is home to 1,500,000 urban blacks...
...sign outside the dingy, heavily guarded building in southwestern Moscow proclaimed: PEOPLE'S COURT. But what went on inside it last week was a caricature of justice. After four days of carefully rigged proceedings, a panel of three judges handed down the expected verdict: Yuri Orlov, a leading Soviet dissident who had been held incommunicado for more than 15 months, was found guilty of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." The 53-year-old physicist was then sentenced to seven years in a labor camp, to be followed by five years of exile in a remote part of the Soviet...
...open elections because he thinks he has a chance of winning the presidency of an independent Zimbabwe, the African name for Rhodesia. Mugabe, the ideologue, is more committed to violent takeover and authoritarian rule thereafter. Unlike Nkomo, who has a base of political support among the Matabele tribesmen of southwestern Rhodesia, Mugabe is not widely popular at home and can only lose from an election. But if negotiations collapse and the fighting increases, Mugabe would probably be the chief beneficiary...
Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd (Henderson Forsythe) puts up a doughty fight against the miscreants of reform, and if pithy Southwestern scatology could carry the day he might conceivably have saved the ladies of the evening. It is a rip-roaring performance by Forsythe, who in past plays has often been immured in elegantly manicured drawing rooms. He is particularly sympathetic in his valiant defense of Miss Mona, whose long-ago lover and protector he has been...
...Southwestern's business practices at Harvard have gradually improved over the last few years, Epps said...