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TIME July 16, 1984 12:00 AM EDT A few hours after the late Alfred Bloomingdale’s notorious mistress, Vicki Morgan, 30, was murdered last year, her roommate, Marvin Pancoast, walked into a nearby police station and confessed. The homosexual Hollywood hanger-on, who had moved in with Morgan after she lost a $5 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale two years ago, said he had bludgeoned her with her son’s baseball bat to “help her sleep.

The incident happened in Ekpene Ikot Effio Anang in the Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, after the family of the 32-year-old woman, Esther Asuquo, refused to allow her to go back to her estranged husband following their disagreement. According to residents of the community, the family of the woman took her to the home of a native doctor instead of a church after she was forced to run away from her home following several prophecies indicating that the powers invoked in her house by her husband would be active for a long time.

A few hours before dawn on Feb. 26, East Timor’s most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, drove into the small town of Same, 50 km south of Dili, with about 70 armed supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house, and set up roadblocks on the streets leading up to it.

Martin O’Malley, troubadour in a baby blue tie and a Democratic candidate for president, put his foot on a chair and gave a borrowed guitar a strum. “What do we want to sing?” he asked. Someone in the crowd gathered in a leafy backyard Wednesday evening in Concord, New Hampshire, called out “This Land Is Your Land!” And O’Malley began: “From the redwood forest…” The Democrats on the lawn may not have realized it, but the patriotic Woody Guthrie ditty happens to also be a favorite of Sen.