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...death squad leader, a charge he ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove up in a bulletproof yellow Wagoneer. Addressing the crowd, he declared: "The guerrillas are destroying us with their guns...
...brass band struck up the national anthem, and, for an instant, there was a bit of magic. Duarte affectionately waved to the crowd with both hands. Many waved back to wish him luck. But the moment died with the fading notes from the band. The crowd dispersed in silence and the President was driven off in a heavily guarded group of armored vans...
...Pollock painting, splashing everything about the sixties--sex, drugs, rock, JFK, the moon shot, draftcard burnings, racial tension, etc--into one amorphous mass, demanding more emotion and extracting more then it's worth. Penn and screen writer Steve (Breaking Away) Tesich drape images of America--idealistic immigrants, the national anthem, a flag-burning--with out ever evoking an emotion. The "action" drags so that you find yourself not only out guessing the "suspense," but imagining situations more compelling than those that actually transpire...
...strike and form unions, the Warsaw regime granted concessions extraordinary in a Communist country, including reduced censorship and access to the state broadcasting networks for the unions and the church. At a nationally televised ceremony, where strikers and government representatives stood side by side and sang the Polish national anthem, Walesa signed what became known as the Gdansk agreement with a giant souvenir pen bearing the likeness of John Paul...
...bleakest Christmas since World War II, a dreadful stillness settled across the land. The days seemed colder, the nights darker, the streets emptier. The quiet was broken only occasionally, most often by the rumble of armored personnel carriers. But every so often, as it has for centuries, a familiar anthem would rise from some church, apartment building or worker's cottage: "Poland is not yet lost..." ?By William E. Smith. Reported by Roland Flamini/Bonn and Gregory H Wierzynski/Warsaw with other bureaus