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...unrest spread beyond Eritrea to Tigre province, just south of Asmara, where guerrillas blew up a bridge and halted a convoy of 50 army tanks bound for the relief of the city. In Addis Ababa, a few skirmishes took place between nervous soldiers and civilians. The government was said to be setting up three concentration camps in the capital in possible preparation for the internment of tens of thousands of Eritreans who live there. In case serious fighting breaks out in the city, the junta was reported to be moving Haile Selassie from the National Palace to a secret hideout...
...gospel, Graham said: "It is our opportunity to help these new societies to channel missionaries into countries where we as Westerners cannot now go." The exclusion of Westerners and the tottering of old political orders should be considered a challenge, said Graham. "We must capitalize on the spirit of unrest and change throughout the world." As for developing an Evangelicalism that is not controlled by the First World, Graham reminded his listeners that "Jesus Christ was not a Westerner...
...apply that criterion to Monty Python yet. But my roommates have been answering my questions about the weird things they say lately with quotes like "Well, that's where my claim falls to the ground" or "It's a pun" and "It's people like you what cause unrest." This could go too far. I don't know how I could take a lunch made out of spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, chicken tetrazzini and spam...
...earth. The average annual income is a pitiful $80, and fewer than 3% of the 26 million Ethiopians can read or write. In the beginning, the 120-man Provisional Military Administrative Council that now rules the country gave promise of democratic reform. Today, after months of mismanagement and unrest, the council-known locally as the Dergue (meaning "shadow" in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language) because most of its members are unknown to the public-is at least as unpopular as the Emperor...
Free Services. The public unrest also reveals a growing dissatisfaction of many Danes with the cost of their cradle-to-grave social-welfare system, pioneered by the Social Democratic Party, which has been the country's major party for the past half-century. Increasingly, Danes question whether they can afford a constant expansion of state services that include free kindergartens, hospitals, university education, generous old-age and disability pensions, and liberal housing subsidies. More than 550,000 bureaucrats are on the public payroll against only 415,000 workers employed in all Danish manufacturing. An average of $800 is spent...