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...Crack, craack, craaaack," booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black...
...Calvin and Sharon Petersen of Mantua, Utah, bought build-it-yourself paper medieval towns (price: $6.95). Cathy Smith of Medford, Ore., bought a framed print of Nathaniel Currier's lithograph The Favorite Cat ($38). For his mother, Steven Prince, a Los Angeles businessman, selected a shawl imprinted with the tree of life ($25). Says Prince: "Museums sell items of quality. They bring art to the people...
Sales of this year's White House Christmas tree ornament--profiles of James and Dolley Madison--by the White House Historical Association set a new record, 26,500 at $9.75 a bauble. Sheila Tate, who used to be Nancy Reagan's press secretary, was told that during the second term interest in the First Family would begin to decline. "It never happened," she said. Bill Henkel, the White House advance director for three Presidents who in other years used to have to work hard to get crowds, now just has to let people know where Reagan will be and there...
Eckehard Kaerner, 50, an Austrian high school teacher headed for some vacation study in Israel, died of multiple wounds under a brightly lit Christmas tree near the E1 A1 counter. "Suddenly there was this terrible noise, not single shots but real explosions," said a Viennese man who jumped behind a counter. "Three or four meters to my left, three people had fallen to the ground. There was a small child, all bloodied, its mother, who was also wounded, and a man who lay bleeding and seemed dead. To my right, another man had fallen and did not budge anymore...
...merriest Christmas in years for Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov. Bonner, who was permitted to leave the U.S.S.R. last month for treatment of heart and eye trouble, gathered around the tree with her mother Ruf, son Alexei, daughter Tatiana, their spouses and her three grandchildren. At the celebration in Newton, Mass., where the families live, there were special gifts brought from the homeland, including fine black caviar and vodka. But the day was tempered with sadness. In two months, Bonner must return to Gorky, where Sakharov remains in "internal exile." While her agreement with Soviet authorities prevents...