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...country music, much of it from some fairly strange countries. This flow of funk is interrupted by loopy commercials for the Deep Valley Bed, the kind with the old-time mattress that sags in the middle, making prolonged marital discord impossible; Bertha's Kitty Boutique, where doting and guilt-ridden cat owners can find, among other cossets, a special cat ice cream called Gatto Gelato to cool kitty's tongue on hot days; and, of course, the celebrated Powdermilk Biscuits ("Heavens, they're tasty!"), which "give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done...
Indicted. David Chalmers Jr., 51, owner of Houston-based oil company Bayoil USA; on charges of funneling millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime to secure oil deals under the U.N.'s scandal-ridden oil-for-food program, depriving the program--set up to protect Iraqi citizens from U.N. sanctions by allowing Iraq to sell oil and use the money for food and medicine--of funds that should have gone for humanitarian aid; along with two other Bayoil executives; by federal officials in New York City. Those charged denied any wrongdoing...
...spends his time trying to find a replacement for him. His relentless search starts in the obvious setting of his own home, but his mother—played, interestingly enough, by Duchovny’s real-life wife Téa Leoni—proves to be too anxiety-ridden and grief-stricken to be anything other than a burden...
ARRESTED. Huey P. Newton, 43, co-founder of the Black Panthers, the violence- and faction-ridden black militant organization that enjoyed a radical-chic vogue in the 1960s and '70s; on charges that he and an associate embezzled as much as $67,000 in federal and state funds; in Oakland. The money was allegedly taken from a community education and nutrition program the Panthers operated from 1973 to 1983. A post-arrest police search of Newton's home turned up burglary tools, a loaded .45-cal. automatic and a shotgun, for which he also faces charges...
...after day, the number of detainees grew--first 500, then 800, finally 1,000. Police jeeps and trucks rumbled through the dusty, despair-ridden black townships that surround South Africa's towns and cities, stopping at this house and that. A man was pulled out here, a woman there. The security forces arrested political activists, church workers, students, labor organizers, youthful militants--anyone, it seemed, who might conceivably lead a protest against the white minority government of State President P.W. Botha. At times the detentions seemed carefully planned, at others indiscriminate: near Johannesburg, 22 bus passengers were taken into custody...