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...stanched the flow of blood. While the average number of deaths each day dropped from 3.4 to fewer than two in the weeks immediately following Pretoria's imposition of media restraints on Nov. 2, the average daily toll last week rose above five. The statistic was a sharp challenge to the government's contention that without television and camera crews present to incite publicity-hungry blacks to violent heroics, the disturbances would quiet down. As unrest flared in Queenstown and Mamelodi, two black areas that had been relatively calm, the protesters seemed to be indifferent to the absence of reporters...
...some claim as much as 50%--never reaches the mujahedin. Because of the secrecy that surrounds the pipeline (Pakistan denies that it exists), the figure is difficult to confirm. In Washington, Reagan Administration officials and members of Congress concede that shipments to Afghanistan are being skimmed, but there is sharp disagreement over how significant the losses...
Montazeri's appointment caused some unease in Tehran's ruling circles, where there are sharp divisions on how to manage the country's stagnant economy. Montazeri is the youngest of Iran's handful of Grand Ayatullahs and has an undistinguished reputation as a religious scholar. Considered more of a pragmatist than Khomeini, Montazeri is also said to lack his mentor's charisma and oratorical skills. The timing of the announcement did not appear to coincide with any worsening of Khomeini's health. Last Saturday the Ayatullah stood in public for 30 minutes to deliver a speech marking the Prophet Muhammad...
...sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed by whiskers. Says the designer in retrospect: "It evokes something tender, rather than a polished, sharp look." It took almost ten years for the look to travel from Milan to Miami, but while Johnson and Vice flash thrive, stubble will surely survive...
...long before he launched the world's most populous nation on an audacious effort to create what amounts almost to a new form of society. But, as might be expected from the diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), steel-hard Deng, 81, it was a joke with a sharp point. If in his more solemn moments he still attempts to justify what he often calls his "second revolution" in the name of that patron saint of Communist revolution, Karl Marx, Deng is well aware that the system he is evolving in China either ignores or defies many of the precepts most...