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Another arrested squatter was Lutheran Pastor William Rex, a D.M.S. activist who faces additional troubles. Pittsburgh police accuse him of conspiring to plan a protest at Shadyside Presbyterian Church, where suspected D.M.S. members hurled balloons filled with dye and skunk spray at participants in a family Christmas pageant. In addition, members of Rex's parishes in Monroeville and Trafford, Pa., have petitioned Bishop May to investigate the parson's conduct...
...Kandell does note feuds of another sort that are commonplace in certain areas of the new frontier. In Brazil the encouragement given by the government to settlers in the agricultural regions newly carved out of jungle has had the unexpected side effect of creating large numbers of poor squatter settlements, where would-be settlers wait to receive land. In Paraguay, the sudden influx of large numbers of settlers to the region around the Itaipu dam has caused many Paraguayans to become concerned over the security of the border...
That future, in the eyes of Hong Kong's 5.5 million nervous residents, has never seemed more in need of clarification. From the luxurious mountaintop mansions of "the peak" to the factory floors of Kowloon, from the shimmering office towers of the business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms...
...their jobs in a day of demonstrations that disrupted the region. Paisley led a motorcade to the Parliament buildings in Stormont, which until the early 1970s were the seat of Protestant power. Labeling James Prior, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, as "nothing better than a squatter," Paisley announced: "We are outside the gates of Stormont today. But very shortly we will be inside...
...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...