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...Afterward, the guests trooped into the chill desert night and sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the ruins to watch fireworks and a son et lumière display of Persian history. After an hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...
...Gurion's "willingness to forgive his foes for everything he ever did to them." Thus it was in the desert last week. Six years ago Ben-Gurion broke with the ruling Mapai party over a Defense Ministry scandal. Mrs. Meir became so angry with him that for years afterward she privately referred to Ben-Gurion only as "that man" (in retaliation, he called her "a one-woman stumbling bloc"). Last week Mrs. Meir invited him back into the Labor Party. Ben-Gurion graciously declined. "I am no longer dealing in politics," he said...
HAITI Pooh-Bah By invitation of the President, about 30 young Haitians leaped astride their yammering motorcycles one recent Sunday afternoon and raced wildly up and down the broad avenues beside the gleaming white national palace and the mustard-yellow army barracks in the center of Port-au-Prince. Afterward, President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier happily shook hands all around and basked in the cheers of 15,000 spectators, who were clearly enjoying an event that would have been unimaginable in the days of his father, the late Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...victory. It revealed that 47 nations are absolutely committed against even discussing the U.S. resolution. Nor could the 65 ballots be seen as definite votes in the U.S. camp. Several countries, including Italy, voted for putting the U.S. resolution on the agenda only to make it emphatically clear afterward that they will not support the resolutions when the time comes for a final vote. Moreover, the 15 abstentions suggested that quite a number of countries, among them France and Britain, were dubious even about discussing the U.S. proposals...
...great castle, Hereot. Like Shakespeare's Caliban, Grendel has learned to swear from listening to men. But he is no premature ecology freak. It is not the way men ravage the land or each other that enrages him but how artfully and pretentiously they lie about it afterward. When Hrothgar's scops and gleemen sing of the past, quoting liberally from Beowulf, all those random bloody deeds are transformed into acts of loyalty, bravery, selflessness, steps to progress, and signs, even, of religious purpose...