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...case is not uncommon. In addition to large numbers of the UDF leadership, other old guard figures like Albertina Sisiulu, wife of jailed nationalist Walter Sisiulu, are facing treason charges. Nobel Prize-winning Bishop Desmond M. Tutu hit the nail on the head when, in a New York Times report last week, he expressed his fear that by removing activists capable of organizing protest, the regime is running the risk of amorphous chaos in the townships...
...down local merchants. One difference, officials agree, is that the modern gang is vastly more violent and better armed than its predecessors. The Viet Ching, Vietnamese of Chinese extraction in Los Angeles, pack .357 Magnums and, occasionally, machine guns. In San Francisco, says Inspector John McKenna, "it's not uncommon to see guys carrying grenades...
First Blood made $57 million at the box office, a substantial though not spectacular success. Since then the public's receptivity to tales that lend nobility to the Viet Nam War has grown. Films like Missing in Action and Uncommon Valor, both of them about missions to rescue American POWs in Viet Nam, drew big audiences. On TV, Viet Nam veterans, once portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video...
...less profitable divisions in order to concentrate on aerospace. As the core business of both Allied and Signal, that group is expected to contribute more than 40% of total profits. After the planned divestitures, Allied Signal should have some $2.5 billion in cash on hand. "This is uncommon," says Frank Prezelski, an analyst at Shearson Lehman American Express. "The typical acquisition leaves the combined company a cripple, loaded with debt...
...Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement was an edited and annotated edition of her letters. Largely as a result of these efforts, Eliot has re-emerged whole from the Victorian era, as a novelist and as a woman of uncommon fascination...