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...movie looks like a travelogue; a reggae singe on the up and up is bullied and beaten down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders wearing shades and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the Western hero turned outcase. One the run, a hunted man, his record...
...patriarch, Man Hing-lap, the bulldozers have aroused the dragon from his slumbers and he is now breathing vengeance on the local population. The first victim was Man's grandson, who came down with a mysterious fever. A few days later, seven other of his grandchildren were similarly stricken. Aghast, Man called for his local diviner, who quickly appraised the situation: the dragon's nose had been cut off by a bulldozer; in revenge, the dragon had put a curse on the whole Man clan, which since the 1200s has made up all of the 3,700 population...
...dragon had been propitiated. Taoist priests were brought in to exorcise the demon. A member of the Man family predicted a "bloodbath" if government officials did not meet the village's demands. These included payment of thousands of dollars in expenses for exorcism and for hospitalization of stricken members of the Man family. For good measure, villagers mixed in a shakedown with their superstitions and demanded that the government construct a new drainage system and sidewalks for the village...
Long viewed as the second most powerful man in the U.S., Kissinger -largely as a result of Watergate-is now the supreme architect of American foreign policy. He is the one figure of stature remaining in the rums and the devastation of Richard Nixon's stricken Administration. He may be, because of his prestige on Capitol Hill, the largest single barrier separating Nixon from impeachment (see following story). Even the Russians seem to consider him now more important than the President. When Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin called on Vice President Gerald Ford last week, what he really wanted...
Hans Guggenheim, professor of Architecture at MIT, Wiedemann and four MIT graduate students will convert granaries of the drought-stricken Dogon tribe into water storage tanks...