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Halfway between a colonial past and an uncertain political future, Namibia is already a stricken land, threatened by an incipient civil war that has begun to tear it apart. Last week, even as the U.N. Security Council debated a proposal by its five Western members (the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Canada) for a political solution to Namibia's problems, thousands of members of the territory's Herero tribe gathered to pay tribute to their fallen leader, Chief Clemens Kapuuo, who had been slain by his political enemies. He was no ordinary tribal elder but the head...
...London home. Later the princess and her new companion made a series of unchaperoned holiday visits, without her two children, to the languid Caribbean isle of Mustique. Last month, on the fourth such idyl, the couple were photographed together for the first time upon arriving. On Mustique, Roddy was stricken with a bleeding ulcer and rushed to a hospital in nearby Barbados. Margaret hovered anxiously at his bedside. When Llewellyn returned home, he committed the ultimate indiscretion-in royal circles -of talking directly to newsmen about the lady he coyly calls "P.M.": "Let them all criticize...
Winfield and Tyson are paired together for the first time since Sounder, and their character portrayals are much the same as in that film. Winfield seems to have a talent for playing the role of a patient and understanding father--in Sounder, the story of a poverty-stricken sharecropper family, he portrayed this character with a moving simplicity. In Green Eyes he expanded this role in his role as a Vietnam veteran in search of a lost child...
...committee members asked the administrators why copies of the core report were not distributed to many libraries. Bok and Fox answered that accidents happen, Boylan said, adding that neither Bok nor Fox appeared "stricken with grief...
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