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Analysts dismissed the Vermont and Maine elections as "beauty contest" primaries. Vermont's national convention delegates will not be apportioned until next month in party caucuses, and the candidates have practically ignored the state to concentrate on the South. The primary took place on Town Meeting Day, when Vermont's 328,466 voters also decided town budgets, road repairs and a host of other local issues...
...CAPE TOWN, South Africa--Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious leader from all races were arrested yesterday while kneeling near Parliament with a petition against government bans on anti-apartheid groups...
Riot police blocked Tutu and two dozen other religious leaders, wearing robes and holding Bibles, as they tried to march toward Parliament from nearby St. George's Cathedral, the main Anglican church in central Cape Town...
...scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning in with his cheerfully loony answers. (His favorite skier? John Paul II.) After Edwards' promotional appearance at a nightclub, we-are-not-amused British Olympic officials stamped their little feetsies, cried foul, and the most ingenuous interview in town will be muzzled until the conclusion of the 90-meter jump...
...white United Nations station wagon headed south on the coastal highway from the Lebanese town of Tyre. Suddenly, near the village of Ras el-Ein, a ; brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...