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...dead bodies has filled the air. In the worst massacre, in the village of Mandai, the tribals first demanded money, then corralled the Bengalis in the village market. The horrified settlers were forced to watch while tribesmen armed with guns, spears and heavy scythes called daos put the torch to dwellings and butchered their occupants. "There was blood everywhere," says Haradhem Seal, 20, a Bengali barber whose entire family-parents, three brothers and three sisters -were murdered. "One man hacked at me with his dao. I collapsed, then several bodies fell on top of me. That was probably what saved...
Under the blazing Greek sun, near the temples of Hera and Zeus, the Olympic torch was lit last week. For the next month, 4,820 runners-one for each kilometer of the route via Bulgaria and Rumania-will carry the flame to the newly refurbished Lenin Stadium on the Moscow River. When the torch gets there, the path should be clear. Moscow police are seeing to that, with zealous traffic control in preparation for the Games. Their strategy has totalitarian simplicity: no drivers, no traffic. Although Moscow motorists usually cruise at about 50 m.p.h., police have begun stopping cars going...
There was a mood of euphoria mixed with anxiety on the Endeavor as it slipped out of Little Torch Key. Aboard were two Cuban Americans from Miami who had paid the boat's captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered...
...mass. Just how this will sit with the punky-elite remains to be seen, but the fact remains that this disc reveals levels of talent that even the most perceptive of critics would never have thought Lunch possessed. She fits together such divergent elements as no wave, big band torch singing, Nicoesque arch-gothic vignettes, and mid-'60s bubble gum rock as if they were somehow destined to coalesce. Without ever having indicated that there was anything up her sleeve--much less between her ears--Lunch has made a tremendous musical leap of faith that will force even the most...
...think of nothing but the savagery that occurred at the New Mexico State Penitentiary [Feb. 18], less than ten miles from my home. Good Lord, no human being deserves to have limbs severed by a blow torch or a steel spike driven from one ear to another, no matter what crime brought him to prison...