Word: wiring
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Alan Paton wrote Cry, the Beloved Country 34 years ago. For generations, that plaint emanated from the country's black majority, imprisoned by apartheid. But now there is a cry on the other side of the barbed wire. It comes from the ruling Afrikaners, whose agony rises from the clash between an irrevocable past and an unrelenting future...
...Crimson relied on its bread-and-butter defense to beat a William and Mary squad which ran away from Bucknell in the opener, 83-43. The Indians responded with an equally aggressive defense, and the contest came down to a wire-close finish...
Political crisis is as familiar to Italians as pasta, as regular as a strike, but the latest parliamentary high-wire act in Rome had even seasoned observers worried. His fragile five-party coalition government riven by infighting over economic policy, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had to try twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare...
...then dismiss us to change money, U.S. dollar standard, while workers change the dining car and the outside wheels to accommodate the narrower Mongolian track. In the deserted station, the passengers mingle, elated--and shivery. We are relieved by an easy passage through customs, but frightened by the barbed wire and guns...
...undoubtedly should be. The economic emergency in Michigan prevents any "let-business-do-the-trick" Reaganomic shilly-shallying. But it is a shame that a 300-watt diverted attention away from economic issues. James Blanchard has enjoyed a cakewalk, instead of a race to the wire, which might have transformed him from a Democratic idealist into a much-needed leader...