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...Spartan fans, like Dave Borgman, were easy to pick out in the crowd, since most sported at least one item of bright green clothing. A Lansing, Mich., native who claims to have attended every State hockey contest for the past decade, Borgman was resplendent in a Viking-style helmet and Spartan hockey shirt. Green-dyed buffalo fur lined the top of the helmet, and a green Budweiser cap dangled from one of the horns of Borgman's unusual headgear...
...President rises at 5:30 every morning to pray. By 8 a.m. he is reviewing a stack of correspondence at his desk in the spartan Dodan Barracks in Lagos, where he lives and works. Outside, two armored cars and two tanks evince the might of the Nigerian military. They are also reminders of the dangers that the country's youthful President, Major General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, faces as he goes about reshaping Nigeria's corrupt and debt-ridden society. The President recently granted a 50-minute interview to TIME Correspondent James Wilde. Throughout, he displayed a ready smile...
...replacement as producerdirector was Marvin Chomsky (Holocaust), who took over at the outset of seven months of filming in the Soviet Union. Problems cropped up almost immediately. First the production's entire supply of wigs was lost for 3 1/2 weeks. The crew found Soviet accommodations to be spartan, transportation unreliable and toilet paper rough. "I had a miserable time," says Omar Sharif, who plays one of Peter's advisers. Bored with meals of beet-root salads, chicken and potatoes, Sharif took a trip to Paris and brought back cans of tuna, which he ate at night alone...
Despite the extravagant surroundings, says B-School spokesman William Hokanson, "This is pretty Spartan by their standards. These people come from a certain level where they are used...
Tuesday morning, Jerry and the Scripture-Screamers toured the slum area of Tondo. "Hiya, fella," Falwell said, greeting a naked native in his spartan cardboard hut. He presented the man with a bullet-proof Bible and the Scripture-Screamers' recent album, "Welfare Queen." "If you pray hard, maybe you'll get a record player," he said...