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Chanting "Bury Apartheid" and toning placards, members of the Spartans Youth League (SYL) led a sparsely attended rally on the steps of Memorial Church last night protesting the white South African government...
What may separate this squad from the others, though, is a highly touted freshman class that Scalise says "will push some people" for starting roles, and that will add a touch of youth to an extremely experienced squad...
...title is ironic: the unwanted plant is the author. All his life, Conrad Detrez, 48, has been inflamed by credos and causes. The Belgian youth became an ardent mystic and prepared for the monastic life at the Roman Catholic University of Louvain in the 1950s. A few years later he was a lay missionary in Brazil. There he was appalled by the misery of the masses he had come to inspire with the message of Christ. Soon he had become a follower of Marx and Che Guevara and a guerrilla fighting with the Communists. Eventually he was tried and convicted...
...previous volumes, some of the writers here do not so much expose themselves as assume a role. But the masks they choose are also revealing. Rebecca West, an actress in her youth, plays her interview like Dame Edith Evans doing a scene from Oscar Wilde ("You know, I don't really appreciate the Virgin Mary. She always looks so dull"). West is mischievously iconoclastic about famous authors as only one who has rubbed elbows with them can be. Shaw's was "a poor mind, I think"; Maugham "couldn't write for toffee, bless his heart...
...financial accounting is expected next month, but departing Olympic Organizing Committee President Peter Ueberroth anticipates a profit exceeding the forecasted $15 million, to be disbursed among the U.S. Olympic Committee, the National Sports Foundation and various youth groups. Ticket sales of 5,797,823 broke the Moscow record (5,466,321) and left Montreal in the dust (3,195,170). Considering high ratings-90% of all American households had the Games on at some time-ABC seems unlikely to press for a boycott rebate. Anchorman Peter Jennings and the whole fall schedule have been shirt-tailing to glory...