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...Marxist-ruled but predominantly Christian Ethiopia, the ousted Orthodox Patriarch was jailed in 1976. The general secretary of the Lutheran Church was twice arrested, then abducted in 1979, and has not been heard from since. Believers are forced to worship at dawn before the required Sunday-morning political indoctrination sessions. Some Christians have been tortured and murdered...
...Muskie trait could obstruct a bipartisan policy: his famed, explosive temper, which resembles the thunderous Mandalay dawn. His face reddens, his finger wags, he appears to swell even larger than his imposing 6 ft. 4 in., and then he erupts. But his fellow Senators, even those who have been the target of his wrath, think his temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate...
...chill just before dawn, the climbers reached the 1,532-ft. peak of Cadillac Mountain on the Maine coast. Then, as the sun began to rise, Thorn White of Trenton, Me., picked up his bagpipes and played Amazing Grace. Earth Day 1980 was under...
...festivities ranging from speeches, concerts and organic picnics to solar power demonstrations, kite-flying contests and even a few country boys operating stills, the tenth anniversary of the first Earth Day was celebrated in hundreds of other communities across the nation last week. Celebrations in Washington, D.C., started at dawn with choral music at the Jefferson Memorial, followed by a breakfast rally in Lafayette Park for more than 500 bicycling enthusiasts, among them Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt. At Connecticut College in New London, students unveiled a new windmill that will generate enough power to run the campus radio station...
...world knows that Hollywood's Pleistocene period was the dawn of popular art. According to Historian Kevin Brownlow, it was also the sunset of the movies' frontier spirit. "Pioneers are people of exceptional energy-a quality that sets them apart," he begins. The narrative that follows is a valedictory to the singular men and women who invested and finally squandered those ergs when the hills and plains of Hollywood were still uncharted territories...