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STEVE EARLE: GUITAR TOWN (MCA). Country songs with a cutting edge and a Texas twang...
Gorbachev's glasnost, though, was put to the test in April, when the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl, a then little-known town north of Kiev. At first the Soviet leader abandoned his open style. He dropped out of sight and did not comment publicly on the disaster for 18 days. When he finally reappeared, Gorbachev denounced the West for producing a "mountain of lies" about the accident. But soon glasnost was back; officials and the press began providing information on the accident to a degree unprecedented for Soviet journalism. Criticism diminished, and near...
Mandela spent the year alone in a spacious cell on the third floor of a maximum-security wing at Pollsmoor prison, ten miles south of Cape Town. And although he has been behind bars since August 1962 for conspiracy and sabotage, his shadow fell with stark drama across the racial conflict that in the past year claimed 1,000 more lives...
...September, when Archbishop Desmond Tutu was celebrating an outdoor eucharistic ceremony as part of his enthronement as head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa, Winnie's car pulled up outside the stadium in a Cape Town suburb. Hundreds of young supporters immediately rushed out of the stands to the parking lot, surrounded the car and began chanting, "Man-de-la, Man-de-la." Concluding that she would hopelessly disrupt the ceremony if she entered the stadium, she drove away...
Winning twelve of 16 games this season, the most in the modern history of the franchise, Cleveland has the brightest record in the American Football % Conference and the biggest head of steam. However far the Browns go in the play-offs, they will not have to leave town. "The main thing with our team," Kosar says, "is that we are a team...