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DIED. Vinoba Bhave, 87, saintly ascetic who inherited Mahatma Gandhi's role as India's spiritual conscience; after observing the tradition of embracing death with a weeklong fast, following a heart attack; in Paunar, Maharashtra, India. Slight but vigorous ("a Hercules," said Gandhi), Bhave was a loinclothed apostle of social reform who owned no possessions and tramped 45,000 miles barefoot around India, preaching nonviolence and soliciting contributions of land for the poor...
...tourists in Brazil can get good deals on semiprecious stones such as amethysts, tourmalines, topazes and aquamarines, which cost about 30% less than in the U.S. Neighboring Argentina, formerly one of the two or three most expensive countries in the world, is merely medium-priced today. A weeklong excursion for two from Buenos Aires to Peninsula Valdes, 840 miles away, to view whales and penguins can be bought for just $340, including air fare, hotel room and two meals...
...Bashir Gemayel was buried in his native village of Bikfaya, to the east of Beirut. Only a day or two before, Pierre Gemayel, 77, the family patriarch and founder of the Phalangist Party, had stood with his sons Bashir and Amin to begin what was to have been a weeklong ceremony of receiving well-wishers awaiting the inauguration of Bashir as Lebanon's President. Now, as the trumpets blared and Israeli jet fighters screamed overhead in tribute, the family was receiving mourners by the thousands. Among them, observed Amin, the man who aims to succeed his brother, were representatives...
...arrived at O'Hare Airport last week with a smile, a wave and a corny line: "I feel so welcome, I bought a one-way ticket." Welcome he was. The 2,374,000 member Archdiocese of Chicago celebrated as Joseph Louis Bernardin, 54, proceeded through the weeklong round of rites that marked his installation as archbishop. Already one of U.S. Roman Catholicism's handful of most important leaders, Bernardin (pronounced Burr-nuh-deen) is taking charge of the nation's largest archdiocese. In time he will be named a Cardinal, the first in the U.S. of Italian...
...textbook-selection time in Texas, an annual debate between special interest groups over what students should read in public classrooms. In Austin last week, concerned citizens and publishers jammed the weeklong state textbook committee hearings to criticize publishers' interpretations of sensitive subjects such as civics, health and homemaking, and to promote their...