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...competes for primacy with their loyalty to the nation, and that is religious affiliation. Ask the man who passes you in the street to tell you what he is; most likely he won't bother to say either American or Christian, for both are ingrained--the stripes on our zebra. If what must be overcome, then, are the prejudices and loyalties that traditionally go along with "American," perhaps the feelings that accompany "Christian" could be useful...
...main opponent of these groups is a fledgling lobby called Handgun Control Inc., which was founded by former Du Pont Executive Nelson Shields III after his 23-year-old son became a victim of San Francisco's "Zebra" killings in 1974. In the wake of the murders last December of Musician John Lennon and Author-Cardiologist Michael Halberstam,* membership jumped from 90,000 to 130,000. Sacks of mail, including donations, were arriving last week at the organization's Washington headquarters in response to ads taken out after the Reagan shooting. Handgun Control...
...Zebra Deity...
...chosen you from among all people to help us," chanted a chorus of women over and over and over again in the Lingala dialect. A few feet away, tribesmen with arrow-pierced cheeks and clad in striped costumes performed a zebra dance. Others waved shining spears in greeting. Women of the Ekonda tribe, their breasts modestly covered for the occasion, swayed and sang to the rhythm of drums...
Catholics in Zaïre are also "Africanizing" the liturgy in ways marked by high church attendance and great zeal. At a typical Mass the young priest dons a zebra's mane headdress while assistants, men and women alike, clap and shuffle around the altar to the throbbing of drums and an occasional shrill scream of religious ecstasy. The congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted...