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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:
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- 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."
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- Taner Edis
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