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...Arizona. Nine Italian tourists and their pilot were killed when a small plane crashed in a thunderstorm near the Grand Canyon. Four other people were killed in accidents related to the freak August cloudbursts in the Southwest. Among them were two motorists who were caught in flash floods that swept through San Bernardino, 65 miles east of Los Angeles. Four inches of rain fell in four hours in the desert area...
Politically, Brunei will remain an unlikely hybrid, half absolute monarchy and half welfare state. In 1962, when the country's first elections were held, a group of militant nationalists, calling themselves the Brunei People's Party, swept 97% of all seats, only to be prevented from taking office. When, four months later, the leftists mounted an armed rebellion, thousands of them were thrown, often without trial, into jail. Some still linger there...
...legislative seats in two northern states. On the eve of last week's elections for the legislature in the impoverished southern state of Oaxaca, where leftists had been successfully organizing, and wooing, local peasants, another P.R.I, loss seemed imminent. Yet when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling party of having used ten-year-old voters, a drunken electoral representative and out-and-out ballot box-stuffing to ensure victory, but it has so far offered no proof of foul play...
...with Pauline as the most practical member of the beach party, Rohmer shows that adults are always trying to capture the simplicity of youth. In Rohmer's world, the adults refuse to accept reality, and gradually the children get swept into an adult world where people manipulate others in order to have a good time. These adults constantly wag their tongues in search of happiness and usually get so carried away they bite their tongues...
Harold Washington, still revelling in his election as Chicago's first Black mayor swept through Boston Sunday in an effort to bolster minority voter registration and propel Black mayoral candidate Melvin H. King into City Hall this fall...