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...South Africa. At Columbia University in New York City, hundreds of students held a similar antiapartheid demonstration by blockading a campus building. At the University of Colorado in Boulder, 450 demonstrators were arrested while attempting to disrupt CIA recruitment interviews. To oppose military research at the University of Minnesota, ten students staged a "kill-in" by opening a canister of fake nerve gas and then collapsing in a heap on the floor of the president's office...
...hunt for them immediately turned bloody. A man believed to be fugitive Order Member David Tate, 22, killed a state trooper and wounded another when his van was stopped for a routine license check near Branson, Mo. At week's end the unarmed Tate was seized by police about ten miles from the murder scene...
...allay widespread skepticism, the government last week made other gestures of goodwill. At Crossroads, a wretched, ten-year-old squatters' camp outside Cape Town, where 18 blacks were killed by the police last February, authorities helped the first of up to 12,000 black residents make a voluntary move to a nearby government housing area called Khayelitsha. There, in otherwise bleak surroundings, the new settlers are finding such unfamiliar amenities as outhouses, water taps and access to schools, clinics and a community center. They also are being given 18-month residency permits, which allow them to seek employment...
...gunned down at his Daly City, Calif., home last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian court to life imprisonment for carrying out the murder...
...into ethnic and regional tributaries that do not form a national mainstream. Malcolm finds a large cultural significance in the small fact that one of the most popular imported beers in the U.S., Moose-head Canadian Lager, is available in 50 American states but only four of Canada's ten provinces. Perhaps because of the barriers that divide them, Malcolm decided, Canadians "did not think much of their country, of each other, of their future together, or, thus, of themselves...