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...exMarine, Janklow, 5 ft. 10 in. and 225 Ibs., calls himself "the world's best fat-man water skier." He has padded around the Governor's mansion in bunny pajamas. He drives a Corvette and a pick-up truck and, while Governor, has been ticketed for speeding on his Yamaha 1100 motorcycle. He presides over an annual birthday "sock hop" in a greaser's T shirt. But most of Janklow's constituents look beyond the quirks. Admits Frankenfeld: "He's given South Dakotans a sense of pride in their state they haven't felt...
Even at the best of times driving a carmioneta-a pickup truck converted into a local bus-from the northern farming hamlet of San José de Bocay to the village of Jinotega, seven hours away, is a nerve-searing experience. The winding road runs through an area infiltrated by U.S.-supported contras who are waging a cat-and-mouse war along the Honduran border against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. Although there have been contra ambushes before, last week's was particularly grisly...
Alongside the stream, the neon lights of the handful of motels and restaurants wink on. A heavy truck, loaded with cut pine, rumbles past on U.S. 20. Off to the west, Bishop Peak turns indigo. As the darkness unfurls, Lempke stands in a spot he has stood in a hundred times before, watching his fish move downstream. He pauses for a moment, then, feeling the pressure on the line, moves downstream. "Look at the son of a gun go," he says to no one in particular, and pulls his hat closer to his skull...
...Buffalo stations, evoked praise and sympathy from city officials to the man on the street, as well as controversy. "He should have kept on stabbing," said a bartender in downtown Buffalo. "He did what any father would have done, and he shouldn't be charged." Williams, a truck driver and avowed street minister, was arrested for first-degree assault. He spent one night in jail; a sympathetic judge freed him the next day on an unsecured $10,000 bond. "Cop after cop came up to him in the cell and congratulated him," said Paul J. Cambria, a prominent Buffalo...
...whom I met in prison had been sentenced to six years for having transcribed passages out of the Bible for his friends and colleagues. It is very difficult to obtain a Bible. Once a group of Jamaican churchmen shipped some Bibles to Cuba. These were loaded onto a truck in the port of Havana and taken to a paper factory where they were recycled and used for government publications. Once José Maria Rivero Diaz, a Protestant minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten...