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...mentality is anything to go by, you'd bet on Senegal. While the national team is posing like athletes in a group photo, the French and Belgian equipes, dressed like tourists, are admiring the locally made necklaces on the souvenir stand. Lo does not want to frown upon his guests, but his judgment is obvious. "They hold a different view of the game," he says shyly. Jeanneret, wearing shorts himself, concurs: "The Senegalese are simply more motivated...
...religion; it's good enough for me.'' That is just what they got moments later, when it was announced that they had elected an ardent Fundamentalist as the new president of the nation's largest (14.5 million members) Protestant denomination. The victory of Memphis Pastor Adrian Rogers, who insists upon a strictly literal interpretation of the Bible, marked the eighth consecutive presidential victory for Baptist Fundamentalists since 1979, when they began a determined drive to wrest control from the moderates. Taking advantage of their formidable appointive powers, the Fundamentalist presidents have gradually changed the character of the boards that govern...
...intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy than a woman's decision . . . whether to end her pregnancy.'' In dissent, Justice Byron White cautioned against defining ''fundamental'' liberties ''that are nowhere mentioned in the Constitution.'' Rather than imposing ''its own controversial choices of value upon the people,'' the court should return such hotly contested moral and political issues to the legislatures. The division on the court, White concluded, is ''symptomatic'' of its ''own insecurity over its handiwork in Roe vs. Wade and the cases following that decision.'' Chief Justice Burger objected not to a woman...
...that while the U.S. devours huge amounts of foreign industrial goods, the American economy risks losing the very industries that have kept it strong for decades. Says John Young, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and former head of President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: ''Manufacturing is the foundation upon which a service economy is built.'' Fears of deindustrialization are a major force behind protectionist sentiments in Congress, which are rising in a new crescendo. In the past year more than 200 restrictive trade measures have appeared in the congressional hopper, aimed at sheltering a wide variety of American industries...
...beyond for three nights last week, late-night travelers near Atlanta came upon an astonishing new rock group in the lounge at the Ramada Renaissance. There, goofing and jamming together, were U2's lead singer Bono Vox and guitarist the Edge as well as Lou Reed, the grandfather of punk, Genesis Founder Peter Gabriel and New Orleans' own rock-'n'-soul kings, the Neville Brothers. Gyrating happily on the dance floor to the improvised mix of music was Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights...