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From: Taner Edis <edis@ETA.PHA.JHU.EDU>
Subject: World News
Message-ID: <9211050432.AA20918@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:29:41 EST
Here are two short items from the World Press Review:
The government-owned *Herald* of Harare reports that "Zambia's
ruling party, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD), will
exclude [candidates] from contesting local government elections if
they continue threatening others with witchcraft. Acting Kasempa
District Chairman Joshua Mukena [has] told party members that
witchcraft is out." His warning came after one candidate reportedly
threatened "to bewitch those daring to stand against him" in
November's election. THe MMD came to power a year ago in the
country's first multi-party national elections. Mukena said that the
party must field "clean candidates."
Well, somebody is doing something about the weather, according
to *Komsomolskaya Pravda*. The Russian Agriculture Ministry,
desperate to improve crop yields, recently invited "the capital's
leading psychics, magicians, and representatives of small enterprises
that deal with weather control" to a conference.
The good news is that a rainmaking machine that was patented
in 1989 -- and is still shrouded in secrecy -- has apparently produced
rain several times where it was requested. The bad news: Agriculture
Minister Viktor Khlystun has "expressed dissatisfaction that the
psychics, magicians, and weather controllers are acting in an
uncoordinated manner, causing thunderstorms and rain at random sites."
Taner Edis