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...turmoil at home and in school. In a leafy suburb we find Angela perpetually at odds with her mother and father. She wants from her parents what all teenagers want, the freedom to go to a rave or dye her hair a fiery red. At school she is torn between an enduring affection for her childhood friend Sharon -- a well- behaved clarinetist dressed to her socks in pink -- and the alluring world of Rayanne (A.J. Langer), a girl who wears dangling earrings and possesses a brash, sexual confidence. "School," Angela explains in a voice-over, "is a battlefield for your...
...looked like an episode of roadside vengeance. About 30 miles southwest of the capital city of Kigali, four Tutsi, one of them a soldier of the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front, stood around a Hutu man in his 50s. He was barefoot and dressed in a torn shirt and baggy pants. A dirty strip of blue- and-white fabric roped his elbows tight behind his back. His three young accusers shouted that the Hutu was a member of a militia group that had slaughtered Tutsi and political moderates earlier this year. They had seen him beat an old woman to death...
...most recent polls indicate that voters may well adhere to their favorite axiom: Better the evil you know than the one you have yet to meet. "Mexicans are torn between their desire for change and their fear of change," says Delal Baer, director of the Mexico Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. In the privacy of the voting booth, she added, they may well choose the certitude of the P.R.I. over the question marks represented by the opposition...
...have for a morally upstanding, soon-to-be-guided-into-the-corporate-world-by-his- father young man. Plastics are not where he wants to be. He'd rather be wrapped in the arms of his mother's best friend who seduces him during his mother's wake. Torn between two lovers, the other being Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine, Hoffman's character is stuck...
...officials say strife in Rwandan neighbor Burundi, also torn by Hutu-Tutsi tribal tensions, now threatens the main food supply to refugee camps in Rwanda and Zaire. Relief workers fear that starvation in some parts of Rwanda could spark a new exodus of 800,000 Hutus across the border. U.N. officials, equally worried, say such a mass movement of refugees might also be prompted by the planned Aug. 22 departure of French troops...