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Elek said he was one of 40 foreigners in Wad Sherife, a refugee camp of 100,000 on the eastern border of Sudan and Ethiopia. Oxfam, CARE, the American Refugee Committee, and the Swiss Red Cross jointly administer the camp under the authority of the Sudanese government...
...just twelve years old when he picked up some free samples of Skoal and Copenhagen tobacco at a local rodeo. Dipping snuff was a popular habit at his school, especially among the athletes. And Marsee, a budding track star, quickly grew accustomed to the feel of a juicy wad in his mouth and the slight head buzz that goes with it. By the time he entered high school, he was dipping his way through seven to ten cans a week. Then in 1983, his senior year, Marsee developed a painful sore on his tongue. It refused to heal...
...Almost 850,000 Ethiopians have crowded into Sudanese camps where, often, there is little shelter or food or water to be found. There is, however, peace. Mohammed Ali, a gaunt 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer, led his wife and five children on a ten-day walk to Sudan's Wad Sherife camp. At the end of the road he found scant sustenance. "I miss my village," Ali told TIME's Philip Finnegan, "but I am glad I came. I am afraid of the war. Even if I am hungry here, I don't hear the bombs and the fighting...
...Johns Administration's refusal to raise taxes in order to finance its war effort ultimately triggered years of inflation and economic havoc. Should the current Administration's thriftless policies lead to economic crisis public opinion will surely turn against arms programs and Congressman will regret having shot their expensive wad on a marginally effective bunch of missiles at the expense of some future sound and necessary system. If there is a lesson to be learned from Vietnam, it is that when government take the right stand in the wrong place they can only ultimately discredit a valid position...
...once, the perfect Southern gentleman and the easygoing good ole boy. Trim, handsome and carefully dressed, he can exude the effortless charm of a man comfortable with wealth and power even as he chews a wad of Red Man tobacco, spitting the juice into a paper cup. A well-educated scion of a prominent line of Houston attorneys, he enjoys fishing with his buddies in the waters of Matagorda Bay and hunting wild turkey on his land near San Antonio. He is a managerial mastermind who relaxes by watching pro football games and listening to Tammy Wynette records...