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...outdoor barbecue grill as some 20 weekend guests sip cocktails and pick at turtle egg and black conch appetizers. Half a dozen children race through the garden to the swimming pool. Most of the guests are middle-aged relatives. They talk little of politics but much of their kin who have left for the U.S. There is only a brief flare-up of political emotion as a woman berates her brother-in-law for the behavior of his son, who is a high-ranking member of the Sandinista Party. The man listens to the tirade with his head down. Finally...
Today the two couples no longer speak. Their friendship has been rent by a bitter three-month-old strike against Phelps Dodge that has divided friends and kin throughout Morenci, Clifton and a string of other copper company towns in southern Arizona...
Being a son of America's most lustrous political family is both a blessing and a curse. He basks in the reflected glory of his kin, but he also feels the burden of living up to his celebrated name. And at times of personal crisis, he can find himself bunking in the harsh spotlight of national attention. That is what happened last week to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 29, the third eldest child of the late New York Senator...
...bull" drum, the big ocean fish that loves to feed in turbulent waters. Many homeowners hunkered down to ride out the storm. "If they're crazy enough to stay on the beach, then we're going to ask them for the names of their next of kin," said one frustrated police officer. Cornelia Ruff, 70, a retired secretary, said she was staying "to protect my property." Her home, built in 1894, has withstood all the storms since, including the unnamed but unforgettable 1900 hurricane that killed 6,000 people in Galveston. Ann Ferguson, 40, a Galveston museum director...
...leaders turned to Hirohito while deliberating whether to join the war. Without explanation, the poker-faced monarch proceeded to recite a gnomic waka (a traditional 31-syllable poem) composed by his grandfather, the Meiji emperor: "On the seas surrounding all quarters of the globe/ All people are kin to each other/ Why then do winds and waters of conflict/ Disturb peace among us?" He said no more on the subject...