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Sarasota is known for its combination of few crowds and beautiful beaches. What most people don't know is that it is also one of Florida's cultural capitals. At the Entertainment Center--a gaudy, big, pinkish-purple hall which sticks out into the harbor--you can catch a top-run Broadway show or a classical concert...
...time trees were sacred. Gods inhabited them and took their forms. Trees were druidic. They rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...
Mandela's busy life at Victor Verster contrasts sharply with the years of hard labor he endured on Robben Island, a penal colony across from Cape Town Harbor where he was incarcerated for nearly two decades. For the first ten years he swung a pickax in a limestone quarry, breaking boulders into gravel. But the harsh punishment only strengthened his resolve, and he directed his anger into a crusade for better prison conditions. "To us," says Steve Tshwete, an A.N.C. guerrilla leader imprisoned for 15 years, "he represented the correctness of our cause and the inevitability of our victory...
...found it almost impossible to pacify the people of Azerbaijan, who for two years have been inflamed by a bitter blood feud with neighboring Armenia over control of the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Last week black flags waved from housetops, sirens wailed and ships' horns echoed over Baku harbor as some 800,000 Azerbaijanis thronged the streets, in defiance of emergency regulations, to mourn their hundred or more "martyrs" killed in street clashes with Soviet troops. Among the marchers' signs: a photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev over the word WANTED...
...Captains of more than 50 merchant ships from Caspian Sea oil refineries blockaded Baku harbor, threatening to blow up tankers and drilling platforms unless they were allowed to inspect ships leaving port. Rumor had it that Soviet troops had killed thousands and were dumping the corpses at sea. Army artillery barrages broke up the blockade, and troops boarded several of the ships. Lieut. General Mikhail Kolesnikov reported that one soldier was killed and two were wounded in the operation...