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...Rawlings, 34, was in power in Ghana last week for the second time in 2½ years. Rawlings overthrew the government of President Hilla Limann, 47, in whose favor he had withdrawn in September 1979. The dashing Rawlings, son of a Scottish father and a Ghanaian mother, had seized command, he declared, because the previous government was led by "a pack of criminals" who were taking the West African nation "down to total economic ruin...
...scolded, teased, praised?and sometimes the shot at, and sometimes the decapitated and the killed for food. All that can be done to them is done, and they do what they are told. But not forever. One morning the streets through which they skitter now will be theirs to command. They will not think what to do; they will already know. Whatever becomes of them and of their countries will have been decided in some absolutely innocuous moment during these innocuous years, a moment they will not be able to trace. Their thinking done, they will rule largely by reflex...
...blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that he shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year, at which his lawyers will plead insanity, Hinckley, alone in a Maryland stockade cell, now has only himself to hurt; twice he has attempted suicide. Agca, after a boyhood of rural Turkish poverty, attended...
...expansion team was conceived by him in 1967 as a surrogate for the Cleveland Browns, the team he founded in 1946 that bears his name. After 17 mostly glorious seasons in Cleveland, Brown lost title in a power struggle with Art Modell, and Paul made sure he kept total command the next time...
...theory, Communism was originally, and supposedly remains today, a social and political doctrine based on economic goals and means. The chief goal is an equitable distribution of the wealth that society produces. The principal means is a command economy, in which the state, rather than private individuals or enterprises, takes responsibility for all production and distribution...