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...would light a candle in a White House window "as a small but certain beacon of our solidarity with the Polish people." He asked Americans "to do the same, on Christmas Eve, as a personal statement of your commitment to the steps we are taking to support the brave people of Poland in their time of troubles." In Vatican City, Pope John Paul II lit a candle in the window of his study. Around the world, millions of candles flickered in the long night of Poland's anguish...
...conduct of his colleagues during Rosalynn Carter's 1979 visit to refugee camps in Thailand that he simply abandoned the assignment. "The conduct of the photographers was morally reprehensible, he recalls with anger. "They were literally trampling dying babies to get better shots." Frequently, however, they are also brave and daring, in an old-fashioned way that is rare nowadays. In Viet Nam, some 30 cameramen were killed or listed as missing covering history's most photographed war More photojournalists died than generals," says Magnum Executive Raymond Depardon. Many of them took their credo from Robert Capa...
This is not exactly a novel scenario; the scarier financial writers have been mulling it over for years. But there is something brave about Rollover It undertakes to explain, in dramatic terms, how the international monetary system functions and to speculate on how a monkey wrench could be inserted into the computerized, satellite-linked works by which currency is instantaneously traded round the world. Someone whose most sophisticated investment was a flyer in 1944 war bonds may not be able fully to assess these maneuvers, but it is nice to be asked...
...AGREE with the majority in what they say about Poland. That the brave men and women of Poland must now face new levels of oppression and institutional violence is cause for the deepest sort of concern; the situation shows everything that is wrong with Soviet Russia and the Eastern bloc...
...thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy, twice the mayor's age, takes his own backhanded swipe: "Those poor Hatfields, as I understand it, were too easy with their drinking back then. It took away their sense, made 'em too brave." Given the chance, Hatfields abandon impartiality as well. Says Henry D. cheerfully: "Really, the Hatfields won the feud. Devil Anse would have ended it any time. But Randolph McCoy was so irate. . ." Even Dutch, appalled by his ancestors' attack on a McCoy family home in 1888, reminds a visitor...