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...interviewed last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer before clamming up to the press, said that "when he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals." At 18, Jeffrey witnessed the bitter divorce of his parents and lived with his mother in Bath Township, Ohio. But one day, said Shari Dahmer, his mother disappeared with his younger brother, leaving Jeffrey with nothing. Often Dahmer attempted to sedate himself with alcohol. "He was a gentle person, but when he got drunk it would take four policemen to hold him down," said Shari Dahmer...
...A.N.C. was doomed to fall short of the absurdly high hopes inspired by Mandela's release from prison in February 1990. But the organization has genuinely dismayed many South Africans with its increasingly strident demands, its role in township violence, its muddled ideas about nationalizing parts of the economy and its maddening bureaucratic sluggishness. Not long ago, A.N.C. leaders could be heard arguing that the government should simply hand over power. Now it is reasonable to wonder if the organization, even with its large number of sympathizers, could win a democratic election when one is finally held...
...grisly form of execution carried out by lighting gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected government collaborators. She surrounded herself with a group of young bodyguard thugs known as the Mandela United Football Team who took it upon themselves to terrorize opponents -- real or imagined -- in the black township of Soweto. Increasingly imperious, Winnie was denounced in 1989 by other black leaders for having "violated human rights . . . in the name of the struggle against apartheid." She visited Nelson in prison shortly afterward, and though it is not known what he told her, a chastened Winnie immediately lowered her profile...
...five weeks Heather Starsiak will graduate from Lyons Township High School in the prosperous Chicago suburb of La Grange. To celebrate the event and to speed her trips home next fall from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, her father Drew is buying Heather a new car to replace her 1989 Pontiac Sunbird. What will it be? On such questions turns the fate of the U.S. auto industry in this grimmest spring in memory...
After serving four years in prison, Prince is trying to build a future for his family. But he is filled with resentment when he sees the stark contrasts between black Alexandra township and the nearby white suburb of Sandton. "Even if you are blindfolded, you know you are in Alex by the smell," he says. "But get in your car, and in five minutes -- look at the mansions, smell the flowers, see the BMWs and the overflowing grocery trolleys in the supermarkets. It can make...