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...outside world has tended to notice Hinckley Township, Ohio, only during the annual celebration of Buzzard Day on March 15, when the homely scavengers flap back to town just as swallows home in on Capistrano. But this summer the northeast Ohio community of 5,000 has a more urgent claim on public curiosity: the case of the missing police chief...
Following Smith's win, Mugabe lashed out angrily at the disproportionate parliamentary representation accorded whites. He promised 200,000 supporters gathered in the Harare township of Highfield that "we will not live with that indignity and insult for very much longer." Branding the whites who supported Smith as "racists of the past," Mugabe also warned ominously of a "cleanup operation so that we remain only with the whites who want to work with the government...
Until her accident, Karen had lived a fairly ordinary life. She was born Mary Anne Monahan in a hospital for unwed mothers in Scranton, Pa. The Quinlans adopted her at four weeks, renamed her, and gave her a strict Roman Catholic upbringing in Roxbury Township, N.J. She was an average student, good at swimming and skiing, popular with classmates...
...pros and cons of technology. She will enter Harvard University in the fall. The world-affairs winner is Richard Carne, 15, of Mendham, N.J., for his examination of moves toward reconciliation by West Germany and East Germany. Carne is a sophomore at the Delbarton School in Morris Township, N.J., where his article began as a history paper. "I'm extremely pleased -- and very surprised," says Carne. "I didn't think I stood a chance...
...deaths raised the already high tensions in black communities, where at least 30 blacks have died in outbreaks of violence. In New Brighton township, near Port Elizabeth, police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who, they said, was robbing a bus. The deaths increased political strains on the government of Executive President P.W. Botha. As liberal politicians pressed the government to hold an official inquiry into the deaths of Raditsela and Mutsi, the Afrikaner right wing was protesting relaxation of the apartheid laws. The latest move: an end to the plan that would force 700,000 blacks...