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...principal bidder for the PTL cable network looked to be evangelist Oral Roberts, whose career has had more ups and downs than the water slide at the now defunct theme park. It has been mostly downs since he launched his desperate give-millions-lest-I-die fund-raising drive in 1987. In the past year the Tulsa televangelist has laid off 10% of his staff and folded his cherished City of Faith hospital and medical school. In search of a more promising venture, Roberts decided to take a bold gamble and offer $6.5 million to obtain PTL's cable...
...Lest any of Burma's 21 million eligible voters mistake the military junta's decision to hold parliamentary elections as an invitation for a democratic free-for-all, the government had gone out of its way to hand every advantage to the army-backed National Unity Party. The country's leading dissident, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 44, was barred from running for office and kept under house arrest. Other opposition politicians were similarly disqualified and detained, . and politicking was confined mostly to private homes. The day before last week's election, officials unexpectedly lifted martial law, which had been...
...reiterated that the U.S.S.R. must first pass a law guaranteeing free emigration, and even then it would be "extremely difficult" for both the Administration and the Senate to approve a trade deal unless Moscow eased its sanctions against Lithuania. Gorbachev protested that he could not do that just yet, lest he encourage separatists and anger his conservative critics...
...devastation mounted, only a few officials kept track of the toll. The people could see, smell and sometimes choke on contaminated air and water. They could watch the grime accumulate on their homes and see the vegetation die. But they could not speak about it or protest too loudly, lest they be harassed as dangerous dissidents...
...much in favor of the right to associate as much as the next person. And I readily acknowledge that The Club may just be a simple extension of the privileges we already receive--access to the world's largest private library system, contact with world-renowned professors, and lest we forget, the ability to stamp Harvard on our resumes...