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...back the farmhouse and 38 acres. Last Thursday a county clerk recorded the deed in the Brauers' name. Margie, who had taken a job as a hospital secretary to supplement Ernie's $300 monthly Social Security check, sat securely in her kitchen last week. "I look out my window," she said. "Our view is so lovely from the house down to the creek. It has never been so green." But then she added quietly, "So many good things have come to us. In a way I am embarrassed. I still hurt for those who are so much worse...
...diplomats negotiate, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas executives are peddling their planes more aggressively than in the past. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-plane division: "We used to sell 727s like you sell Mercedes. This one's nice and there's the price on the window, take it or leave it. But times have changed." Now both American aircraftmakers offer better service, supply spare parts in advance and guarantee maintenance costs...
...aren't heading for a revolution in our country, we are already in the midst of one," says the stern, silver-haired churchman as he glances at the acacias and bougainvilleas blooming outside the window of his study. "And by that I mean it's a revolution of ideas, a revolution of our system of values. We are forced -- even if we don't like it -- we are simply forced to join hands and to share power. We can't go on any longer as we did for the past 300 years. We've got to change...
...Johannesburg. In Umlazi, a black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...
From the moment of his intensely dramatic entrance--bounding through the Library's window--to the bitter end, Thornley delivers the play's best performance and has the only credible British accent of the bunch. Thornley holds his own against the many professional actors with whom Christie fans are sure to be familiar. He brilliantly interrogates the other characters in the play's many drawing room scenes...