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Generations of modern Egyptians [as well as others from] all over the Arab world have looked to America with interest and hope. There, in your new world, brave men with vision and faith have toiled to carve out of the wilderness a new civilization that fulfills the needs of man in freedom and the pursuit of happiness, away from the atmosphere of bigotry and domination that plagued Europe in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and obstructed its human experience. Your experiment of building what is now the oldest federal system where human beings and states are equal before...
...Fell sighed in mock exasperation. She had just struggled through the ice and snow to bring in a load of groceries that morning, and now she had to brave the arctic-like weather again to cart off three more autographed copies of her husband's new book, America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World...
...second week, just eight of us remained to brave the diatribes of a man frustrated by the fact that he is probably the only professor alive teaching about sport and political ideology...
...celebrate with the funkiest bash in East African history. In the reviewing stands at Kampala, a gaggle of Soviet Russians, Libyans, Cubans and representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization sat mesmerized by the show. Uganda army bagpipers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts marched by implausibly tootling Scotland the Brave. Undaunted by the number of invitations declined-notably by Henry Kissinger -the 300-lb. dictator exuberantly grabbed a spear and joined dancers in a local variant of the jig. After a speech in which he denounced the "Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July, Amin awarded...
Doubtlessly, all concerned with this enormous, expensively cast and heavily flacked "prestige" production were earnestly anxious to make a vivid, powerful statement about this central American historical drama. It was brave of them to try to do so in the unlikely precincts of prime-time commercial tele vision. It appears, however, that in their fervor not to be misunderstood, to be clearly on the side of the angels, they have set aside all common sense. In the one-third of their work available in advance to critics, not one sympathetic white character appears. Not a single black man of less...