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...Blinkpan colliery, police arrested five miners in connection with the strangulation of a black worker who defied the strike call. At the Harmony mine, owners fired 74 miners who were said to have damaged the underground telephone system and harassed other workers. At an Anglo-American Corp. plant east of Johannesburg, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to evict 300 protesters. Later in the week, police fired birdshot at strikers at an Optimum coal mine, injuring at least 27 miners...
This scene is part of the cultural underground in Iran today. Among those who can afford them, American rock videocassettes are a big favorite. Groups of young men, many of them draft dodgers, pool their money to buy video recorders. The regime's efforts to eradicate all Western influences, and especially such evils as music, dance and free speech, have spawned a thirst for whatever the Islamic republic denounces as sinful. Example: the continuing popularity of a satirical videotaped movie called Samad Becomes the Imam, featuring a goofy, rustic character who emerges as the supreme ruler of the Islamic state...
...Tehran and other urban centers were bombed by Iraqi planes. Since then the attacks have abated, but the nervousness remains. When a severe thunder-and-lightning storm struck the capital last month, causing heavy flooding, some city dwellers thought an air raid was in progress and rushed to an underground passageway, where an unknown number drowned in the torrent...
...plumbers can legally take on private work. The government last week reported that 137,000 of these individual enterprises have been registered nationwide. For all its liberal trappings, however, the law seems aimed less at increasing consumer services than at bringing under state control -- and thus taxation -- a flourishing underground economy that is clearly essential to the day-to-day functioning of society...
...quiet town. Of course Alice falls in love with Charles; he is, after all, a man-child of nature who walks like an Italian beachboy. In the end, all three are separated by war. The trouble is that none of these people are believable as disciplined members of the underground. They are sensitive, spoiled Sagan characters, better at being bored than risking their necks. Out of their milieu, they remain oddly indistinct: when Charles admires one of Alice's frocks, she says, "It is a Gres . . . or a Heim." A true Sagan heroine would damn well know her designer...