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...faded ribbons entangled with wilted leaves and a torn flag, once black but now faded to a blotchy purple, are the only mementos left at the mass grave site inside the entrance to Shatila camp. Children on their way home from school skip across the weed-covered burial ground, looking for bits of refuse that can serve as toys. They seem ignorant or uncaring of the fact that beneath their feet lie the bodies of some 200 of the estimated 700 people slaughtered during those 38 grim hours last fall...
...revolution" has degenerated into a vulgar application of Marxist slogans in a country where they do not apply. Rawlings has declared a "holy war" against Ghana's few professionals-- doctors, engineers, lawyers-- calling them an exploitative class, and going as far as setting up an intricate administrative system to weed out those seeking government jobs. The attack is absurd on a group which has never held power, and it has helped insure the government's own ineptitude...
...will finish my dancing career in a year or two," he says. "Then I'll throw those little slippers out the window! I have two movie offers that I haven't absolutely turned down, but I'm not an actor. Next year I'll weed things out; anything that is not related to this house is unimportant...
GROWING UP by Russell Baker Congdon& Weed; 278 pages...
...business bloomed in the late 1970s after the Nixon Administration pressured Mexico to spray its grass crop with paraquat, a potent weed killer. U.S. smokers, frightened of potential lung damage from tainted Mexican grass, turned to growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about...