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...deprogramming target, Arlene ("Patti") Thorpe, 23, a member of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, a commune of several hundred Jesus people in Saugus, Calif., escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent...
...survivors-all men and all but one 26 years or younger-were rescued after two of them had struggled down the mountains in an epic ten-day hike. The pair encountered a stray shepherd, and four climbers of Chile's Andean Rescue Corps helicoptered in to bring out the remaining 14. Some survivors had lost as much as 60 lbs., and six required hospitalization for injuries; otherwise, they were in remarkably good condition despite having spent more than two months on a snow-drenched mountain. Only when the rescuers discovered that nine bodies near the wreck had been strangely...
Last week, after five days in Toronto, the 40 performers and twelve musicians arrived for a ten-day stand in Chicago; future stops will include Indianapolis, New York City and Washington. Dressed in subdued gray Mao suits as they filed through O'Hare Airport, they looked more like a delegation of schoolteachers than the gaggle of brightly plumed acrobats they become in performance. With five tons of props in tow, the Chinese passed out hand-painted handkerchiefs to children in a welcoming group, received candy bars and flowers, and listened politely to the official speeches, few of which they...
...former military bases now converted into refugee centers across Britain, thousands of Asians from Uganda last week wound up their ten-day celebration of Navratri, a Hindu festival of songs, prayer chants and dances in honor of an ancient war victory by the god Rama over the demons of the underworld. The incense and joss sticks were often lit at makeshift shrines on card tables, and the traditional ornate, hand-painted dancing sticks were replaced by plain wood dowels. Displaced and dispossessed, the refugees nonetheless found abundant reason to celebrate. Said one technical engineer, who arrived in London with...
...atmosphere, China's leaders seldom give outsiders any real insight into how they look at their world and that of the West. Some unusual glimpses, however, were recently accorded TIME's Canadian National Correspondent James Wilde, who accompanied a trade and diplomatic delegation from Ottawa on a ten-day tour of China. During an evening of conversation at a restaurant overlooking Peking's Shi Cha Hai lake, a high-ranking official and party member who asked to remain anonymous talked at length and with uncommon frankness to Wilde. Excerpts...