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...like rounds of some unarmed psychic combat. I Am an Animal is a saw-toothed bit of self-mockery and self-appraisal, Let My Love Open the Door and A Little Is Enough love songs with a spiritual finish and a nice carnal edge, Rough Boys a terrific street anthem, and the title cut an elaborate meditation on musical survivors and musical pretenders. "I've been there and gone there/ I've lived there and bummed there/ I've spilled there, I gave there/" Townshend sings, and there are few rock musicians who can make that kind...
...security forces and forget all our past differences." Then Steele, with some strain showing in his face, told the new recruits: "Mugabe is our leader now. We are all fighting for one government." Behind him a ZANLA man sang the opening bars of the guerrillas' Zimbabwe national anthem and the blacks broke into a traditional Shona dance of celebration...
...prestige or power in the world. And yet it was such a dramatically and symbolically delicious moment that Americans erupted briefly in spontaneous, childlike gladness. The very innocence of the conquest made it sweetly uncomplicated and morally unimpeachable. The nation indulged in small orgies of flag waving and anthem singing. At a Stop & Shop supermarket in Cambridge, Mass., the p.a. system suddenly blurted that the U.S. hockey team had beaten the Soviets. The store erupted as bags of cookies, paper towels and anything else handy were tossed into the air with pandemonious cheering. One psychiatrist reported his patients' telling...
Meanwhile, the team from Taiwan was fighting in the courts for the right to use its own flag and anthem, a right denied by the International Olympic Committee when it voted to accept the team from mainland China. On another front, I.O.C. began considering the request from the U.S. Olympic committee, made at the behest of President Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to cancel, postpone or move to another site the Summer Olympics scheduled for Moscow...
With Iran obviously in mind, the generals also pointedly castigated those "who would like to return to Islamic law," as well as "those who sing the Communist Internationale instead of our national anthem." They showed their concern, too, over events in Afghanistan, expressing alarm over "developments in the Middle East [that] at any moment can develop into a hot war." As one Washington analyst summed up the Turkish military's entrance on the political stage, "The soldiers are telling the civilians that they have one last chance to put politics aside and look reality in the face...