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...Ethiopians struck at nine camps, killing 66 civilians. At Solomuna camp, home to 7,000 Eritreans, including 500 children in an orphanage, Ethiopian MiGs dropped 20 bombs in one day last September. Nine people were killed, including six children, and 23 were wounded. Solomuna's residents now rise before dawn and climb into narrow ravines, where they spend the day huddled under rock overhangs. The sound of a distant MiG one morning instantly silenced several hundred chattering children, as all peered skyward. Ghiday Haile, 33, sat under a rock ledge holding her four-year-old son. "Women who were friends...
...segments are flimsy and half-baked (three stories are sometimes crowded into the hour) or weighted down by gloomy moralizing, one of the more lamentable legacies of Rod Serling's classic program. But there have been surprises. Among them was a striking episode from Director John Milius (Red Dawn), in which a man murders his mistress's husband while on a hunting trip, then relives the crime with the roles reversed. Milius bathed his key scenes in orange light and an otherworldly fog, giving the routine tale a haunting resonance...
...Colonel's wise-cracking, involuntary sidekick, Rae Dawn Chong is even less impressive than Schwarzenegger. Chong gives an airheaded performance. Not only do all of Chong's lines fall flat, but her scenes with Schwarzenegger lack both a sense of humor and a sense of adventure...
...Botha to "take another look" at the planned execution. The Soviet Union, the European Community, the 49-nation Commonwealth of Britain and the U.N. Security Council, among others, had also asked that Moloise's life be spared. But Botha refused all appeals for clemency, and last week, shortly after dawn, Moloise went to the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. In Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters: "We hoped that this action would not be taken...
Along with the dawn-to-dusk shoreline revelry, there is some serious rowing. Andy Sudduth, America's premier single sculler, will race. So will Tiff Wood and several past U.S. Olympic boats...